In message <2292.12.6.201.196.1309211348.squir...@popaccts.quikus.com>, "J. For ster" writes:
>IMO, smart meters are a greased, very slippery, slope toward power >rationing or fines for "overconsumption" Or, if they make your electricity bill go down: An fair attempt to make the consumers pay the correct price for their actual usage. It's all a matter of perspective. I was quite surprised when I read in SF.Chron recently that there are consumers in No.Cal who pays more for a kWh than we do here in Denmark, (.38$/kWh) I thought we had the highest (taxed) rates in the civilized world, but I guess not. Energy never was cheap, we just deluded ourselves into thinking so. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
