Your correct on saying that there is still a wide variance on what the cost will be to actually operate the system once it is running - and I am personally thinking that where that money comes from is a skim of the property taxes that have increased over the past few years. As to the accuracy now, if this administration and HART were still working on Hannemann-rules when it came to this project, we'd never ever hear of the escalation of the projects costs, with it all coming out maybe after in a tell-all book by an insider. 

As for current numbers not jiving with the projections (Natalie): I would personally revert to the Federal Fiscal Project Officers ruling on whether HART's books are cooked or not in this case - as what I am hearing is being implied, here.