A long time ago, my electric meter reader would walk over and write down the
reading. Then they started just pulling into the driveway and scanning the
meter from the vehicle. Now they don't even come around. The meter sends a
signal through the power lines, back to their HQ 20 miles away.

"mm" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:33:37 -0500, "Bob" wrote:

My electric company came through a few years ago
and installed electronic meters that send the usage right back to the
main
office. Then they laid off all the meter reade

I think we have that now, but they have to drive down the street -- I
thought -- to read the electric meters. ( OTOH, maybe that was 10
years ago. If the cable company can tell when one customer buys pay
per view, maybe the electric company can tell what I'm using without
driving down the street??????)

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