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 More options May 16 2012, 7:00 pm
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair, misc.consumers, misc.consumers.house
From: Home Guy <H...@Guy.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:22 -0400
Local: Wed, May 16 2012 7:00 pm
Subject: Re: a problem with electric meters?

chaniarts wrote:
> most of the remote read electric meters being discussed here are
> readable without ANY labor costs, as they can be polled from the
> utility computers directly.

And if the utility gets home owners to foot the entire bill for the
meters, computers and software, then in this equation we have customers
forking over $500 over the lifespan of the meter just so the utility can
save $100 in meter-reading costs over the same period.

Brilliant economics there.


 
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