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Illinois Electricity Customers Forced to Get 'Smart Meters' or Pay Fine
Weekly Standard ^
| Feb 13, 2014
| MICHAEL WARREN
Posted on 02/13/2014 7:53:19 AM PST by libstripper
In the early days of the Obama administration, smart power was all the rageand not just on the foreign policy scene. In April 2009, National Public Radio reported how one Allentown, Pennsylvania, mother was saving more than a hundred dollars each month on her electric bill. Tammy Yeakels power company, PPL Energy, had helpfully installed a smart meter on her home that could monitor her power usage in real time. The meter uploaded that information to PPLs website, so she could identify peak usage times during the day
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; illinois; ppl; smartmeters; utilities
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This is as predictable as it is horrible. In the Peoples' Republic of Illinois the DemnonCraps are requiring installation of "smart meters." The first group of victims are, appropriately, the Commonwealth Edison customers. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Illinois, that's the entire Chicago area, the corruption sink that spawned the Mahdi. Even richer, Commonwealth Edison was run by Thomas Ayers, Bill Ayres' father, who did much to help the Mahdi in the earlier stages of the Mahdi's career. Talk about "chickens coming home to roost."
To: libstripper
Smart meters would be a big reason to become as self-sufficient on solar as much as possible.
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posted on
02/13/2014 7:56:27 AM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: libstripper
Who didn’t know this was coming? Next you will keep you thermostat at the government mandated temperature or be fined or imprisoned.
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posted on
02/13/2014 7:57:53 AM PST
by
Phillyred
To: libstripper
New bootleg business opportunity: devices to control what information is sent back to the power company, and what messages are allowed in.
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:00:40 AM PST
by
Ingtar
(The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
To: Phillyred
Some of us don't have thermostats.
/johnny
To: Phillyred
"Next you will keep you thermostat at the government mandated temperature or be fined or imprisoned."
That's the whole purpose of Mahdimeters, especially for law abiding white people. Of course, I do get great schadenfreud from seeing the residents of Stinkburg, who imposed the Mahdi on the rest of us, being the first to get screwed by the DemonCraps, up the anus and out the navel.
To: Phillyred
Next you will keep you thermostat at the government mandated temperature or be fined or imprisoned. You won't have to bother.
The government will set the temperature for you at the Federal Center For Affordable Residence Climate Control.
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:07:26 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
("Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." - Lavrentiy Beria (& Eric Holder))
To: Phillyred
It’s coming to my neighborhood in Michigan in 2015. I will be paying the “fee” to keep it out of my house.
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:07:31 AM PST
by
Sioux-san
To: libstripper
How long will it take for some crook that works for the power company to figure out that power usage will determine when someone is/isn't home, and sell that info to burglars?
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:11:18 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
To: Phillyred
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:15:01 AM PST
by
ronnie raygun
(zippy the a##clown sez..............................)
To: Beagle8U
Everytime you leave home, turn the tv on and the heat up for the cats.
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:17:19 AM PST
by
bgill
To: libstripper
I have had one of these for 10 years. Still trying to figure out why people are afraid of them.
I am only charged for what power I use, no estimates. No one comes into my back yard to read the meter any more. The Coop does not have to pay a meter reader. The meter reader can no longer help out his friends by under reading the meter. Did I mention my annual total bill went down? It has stayed down too.
The power company knows my power is out as soon as I do. If I am asleep, sooner.
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:17:31 AM PST
by
fireforeffect
(A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
To: Beagle8U
Do not forget the cell phone company can do this too.
Timers on the lights and the TV can confuse this.
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:20:40 AM PST
by
fireforeffect
(A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
To: bgill
That would really save ya money./sarc
Seriously though, they would know when someone was home, the address of the home ( rich district ), and likely how much money you have based on your credit score.
That kind of info would be valuable to a burglar.
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:24:25 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
To: fireforeffect
Not everyone has a cell phone.
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:27:09 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
To: Jonty30
"
Smart meters would be a big reason to become as self-sufficient on solar as much as possible."
But that there solar would kill all of the brilliant firepersons. ;-)
Firefighters Warn Solar Panels Could Prevent Homes From Being Saved In Blazehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3119495/posts
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:37:47 AM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: fireforeffect
I have had one of these for 10 years. Still trying to figure out why people are afraid of them.By the time it you figure out it will be too late to do anything about it. Sort of like mass NSA surveillance.
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posted on
02/13/2014 8:44:10 AM PST
by
Count of Monte Fisto
(The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
To: fireforeffect
Just move to a place that has this, no choice, it was already there. The little secret here $1.53 per day just for having the meter turned on. One hell of a regressive fee (I call tax since the power company is a city owned utility). It hurts the poor most. Say some elderly person is able to get their usage down to $45 per month this fee doubles their fee to $90, a 100% tax.
Another person that has a $450 monthly usage which is possible with AC in the south in a large house, that extra $45 dollars is a 10% tax. Extremely regressive, but the local liberals like it. They sock it to the poor.
To: Iron Munro
Might be a good time to invest in gas and electric fireplaces. I foresee a whole lot of gas fireplaces getting installed over the next 10 years.
To: familyop
Between not being able to keep track of my doings and another persons life, it’s not much of a choice.
We can always get another fire fighter. It pays well.
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posted on
02/13/2014 9:07:18 AM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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