So about a week ago, I went to the Bowie Town Hall meeting; where overwhelmingly the conversation was about guns, liberty and some of these outrageous proposed legislation designed to exploit the recent mass shooting tragedies to further an anti-gun agenda.
While I was there a doctor used her 2 minutes to talk about these 'Smart Meters' that are replacing most regular meters. I had never heard of this issue, but recalled that a couple weeks earlier, they had replaced my meter with one of these. She ran down a list of significant problems with 'smart meters' ranging from heath hazards, privacy and security issues, to money laundering political purposes. Later another woman spoke out against 'smart meters' and had a stack of data, and urging some legislation to address the problem.
I've been looking into this issue myself part-time lately, and so far, I think they are right! I sent a message to BG&E to please remove the new meter as it was placed without my knowledge or permission. To my surprise within a week they did send a tech and he simply opened the panel, pulled out the 'smart meter' and pushed in the normal (non radiating) one. It took all of two minutes. We had a good chat about it, and the tech even related that he was familiar with some of the complaints and had removed a few. He said the only negative, is that BG&E will charge me an extra fee now to have an employee come to my house every month and read my meter, like they always have. Isn't this sort of like extortion? Either take our new meter that's sole purpose is to maximize our profit (supported by tax money), or we're going to charge you more either way. I think the charge is going to be between $40-60, that's about 50% of my normal bill.
Anyone else looked into this?
http://marylandsmartmeterawareness.org/
While I was there a doctor used her 2 minutes to talk about these 'Smart Meters' that are replacing most regular meters. I had never heard of this issue, but recalled that a couple weeks earlier, they had replaced my meter with one of these. She ran down a list of significant problems with 'smart meters' ranging from heath hazards, privacy and security issues, to money laundering political purposes. Later another woman spoke out against 'smart meters' and had a stack of data, and urging some legislation to address the problem.
I've been looking into this issue myself part-time lately, and so far, I think they are right! I sent a message to BG&E to please remove the new meter as it was placed without my knowledge or permission. To my surprise within a week they did send a tech and he simply opened the panel, pulled out the 'smart meter' and pushed in the normal (non radiating) one. It took all of two minutes. We had a good chat about it, and the tech even related that he was familiar with some of the complaints and had removed a few. He said the only negative, is that BG&E will charge me an extra fee now to have an employee come to my house every month and read my meter, like they always have. Isn't this sort of like extortion? Either take our new meter that's sole purpose is to maximize our profit (supported by tax money), or we're going to charge you more either way. I think the charge is going to be between $40-60, that's about 50% of my normal bill.
Anyone else looked into this?
http://marylandsmartmeterawareness.org/
