Energy Firm CAUGHT Breaking Down Door to INSTALL Smart Meter!

[The Straight Story]

21. The reason people like ME got cranky

Was that I was careful with my electric and paid a fair amount. New meter shows up and suddenly I am paying more for the same amount I was using before because of a failure in their ability to do their jobs.

In one case, in southern, Ohio. My bill went from less than 80/mo to double and they claimed I owed them over 900 bucks - and they said the problem was not my old meter but a problem at their main station with how it was reading. Now I lived not far from there in a bigger place and paid about the same there for 3 years.

No evidence, no proof offered, just 'fork over 900 bucks'.

If they can make the meter so smart how about they have a panel installed in your house showing the cost in real time, like when you pump gas? Now that would be fair - but am guessing they are more interested in finding ways to bilk people out of money than actually saving them money.