“”To me it’s unconstitutional, it’s an invasion of my privacy,” said Mark Dieteman.”
P.G.&E. isn’t the government. Plus, the meter and the electricity that it measures belongs to them — P.G.&E. He entered into a contractual arrangement with P.G.&.E. to purchase the electrical power that they sell. So, there’s nothing constitutional or unconstitutional about this arrangement. If he doesn’t like what they have to sell, well, since there’s no competitor he can’t purchase power from anyone else, but he still has the choice to disconnect! Then, he can have all the privacy he wants in the comfort of a dark, unheated house!
P.G.&E. isn’t the government. Plus, the meter and the electricity that it measures belongs to them — P.G.&E. He entered into a contractual arrangement with P.G.&.E. to purchase the electrical power that they sell. So, there’s nothing constitutional or unconstitutional about this arrangement. If he doesn’t like what they have to sell, well, since there’s no competitor he can’t purchase power from anyone else, but he still has the choice to disconnect! Then, he can have all the privacy he wants in the comfort of a dark, unheated house!
Yours is a good point. This story illustrates that many people don't have a firm grasp of what is and is not Constitutional (on the federal or state level) and what their individual rights and responsibilities are.
Quite correct. He can’t choose to keep “his” old meter because it isn’t his meter.