On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 11:43:10 AM UTC-4, wrote:
> On 3/21/2021 11:24 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 11:05:51 AM UTC-4, wrote:
> >> On 3/21/2021 10:08 AM, Gary wrote:
> >>> jmcquown wrote:
> >>>> I wonder if he ever looks at his electric bill? Electricity isn't free.
> >>>> And gee, it comes from Fossil Fuels. He's an amazing hypocrite.
> >>>
> >>> Funny you should mention that. I just got my new electric bill and I
> >>> itemized it all. (just curious)
> >>>
> >>> Basic charge per month...just connection fees and taxes was $20. You pay
> >>> that each month regardless of how much power you use.
> >>>
> >> (snippage)
> >>
> >> Yet he's crowing about having disconnected the gas line to the stove and
> >> the gas meter and instead went all electric... as if he's somehow not
> >> being charged a connection fee for electricity. It's not beaming into
> >> his house from outer space. There's a meter and they read it.
> >>
> >> Jill
> >
> > On the other hand, paying a connection fee for a utility that you don't
> > use makes no sense.
> Of course it doesn't make sense. He already had electricity. He seems
> to think since they disconnected the gas meter he is not being charged
> for the electric meter.
> > I can't imagine it required removal of the meter,
> > though. The gas utility should be able to shut off the supply at the
> > meter and lock the meter. Just as they do when people don't pay
> > their bill.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
> Gas and electric utilities always try to get those meters back when they
> have been disconnected. That's so people don't attempt to do something
> stupid like try to re-connect it themselves. In his case, he gave up
> cooking on a natural gas stove for some misguided notion that has
> nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with his belief
> electricity is somehow less insulting to "Mother Gaia". He doesn't
> cook. He rants and he crows about nothing.
>
> Jill

Thanks. I'm blissfully ignorant as to what happens when utilities are
disconnected.

Plus, the meters aren't cheap. They probably don't want some disgruntled
deadbeat damaging the meter.

Cindy Hamilton