While the Council troika continues to pretend the city will be able to sell its electric system before late 2016, if at all, 34,000 customers are stuck paying unnecessarily high rates.  There are viable options, but those alternatives, including the formation of a utility authority and/or a sale of the 22,000 customers outside the city limits, will never be identified and understood so long as a majority of the the Council continues to pretend all is well with the proposed sale of Vero Electric to FLorida Power & Light.