I’ll meter some day
A comment of mine on the November blizzard:
Both electric and gas meters are usually read on the 29th, so I figure I won’t have to pay for compensating for the cold until early January.
Note to self: You are wrong, dekatherm-breath. The guy didn’t come to read the gas meter until the 4th of December, so I got to pay for 34 days’ worth of service, including those wretchedly-cold days, on this month’s bill, which exceeds last December’s bill by ten percent or so despite a one-third drop in the price of gas.
None of these figures, of course, will include the service charges, delivery fees, and all the other neat stuff they have to increase the take, inasmuch as they’re not allowed to turn a profit on actual sales of gas.
