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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Out here in the hinterlands, they can't even read the meters 
automatically. They have to get out of their truck, walk to the meter, 
and write down the readings.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

ob ford wrote:
> PPL was in the national news (WSJ?) yesterday.  Evidently they are trying 
> to set up their digitial computers to shut off gas without having a gas man 
> to go to property once the user is $10 past due.  Now, it is able to shut 
> off if you are $30 past due, but it cost them more than that to send gas 
> man to the property.  Once all digital, computer can auto-cut-off $10 past 
> due.  cold ........bobford 
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> --- On Mon, 11/3/08, Lynn Wigglesworth  wrote:
> 
>> From: Lynn Wigglesworth 
>> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Electricity prices going up , fake or not
>> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
>> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 7:56 AM
>> PPL just (last month) sold the residential gas service to
>> UGI. That's 
>> when the rate jumped by about $1/dekatherm. It's now
>> $13.5311/DT plus 
>> all the other "give us money" surcharges.
>>
>> We have a local electric company that buys power, so our
>> rates change 
>> all the time.
>>
>> Lynn Wigglesworth
>> Tioga Co. PA
>> bob ford wrote:
>>> Who is your provider, PPL ?
>>>
>>>
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>>> --- On Mon, 11/3/08, Lynn Wigglesworth  wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Lynn Wigglesworth 
>>>> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Electricity prices going
>> up , fake or not
>>>> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
>>>> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 7:43 AM
>>>> Our electricity cost is up (it's been edging
>> up slowly
>>>> for years), and 
>>>> natural gas just had a BIG jump.
>>>>
>>>> Lynn Wigglesworth
>>>> Tioga Co. PA
>>>>
>>>> SJC wrote:
>>>>> Really, it makes no difference who said what
>> recently:
>>>>  it's not news, 
>>>>> anyway.  We've been told for 3 or 4 years
>> now, at
>>>> least in the 
>>>>> northeast, that "soon" (when is
>> soon? 
>>>> I've no clue.  Must be 3-4 years, 
>>>>> because it's happening now here)
>> electricity rates
>>>> will shoot upward. 
>>>>> I guess I'm somewhat mystified that anyone
>> would
>>>> be surprised, or upset 
>>>>> about who said what, when it's
>> 'news'
>>>> we've been having for a long time now.
>>>>> Come to think about it, it's been more
>> than 3-4
>>>> years, because the 
>>>>> beginning of that conversation, at least when
>> it hit
>>>> the news around 
>>>>> here, was when I got serious about getting my
>> solar
>>>> setup up and 
>>>>> running, and that was before the house burned,
>> which
>>>> is 7 years ago this 
>>>>> month.  So news it ain't, at least not
>> here.
>>>>> SusanJane, in Maine
>>>>>
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