Get Your Heating Bill Yet? Is It Making A Dent In Your Tackle Purchases

[Redsoxticket]

How about calling in your own gas meter reading. Its accurate but the gas co. would probably prefer to have it inaccurate, go figure.

Originally Posted by Mike P

Just got the new KeySpan bill---$481.81 for last month

The bastards aren't even coming to read the *&^%$#@ meter--ESTIMATED usage. I know we haven't used that much.

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Originally Posted by Redsoxticket

How about calling in your own gas meter reading. Its accurate but the gas co. would probably prefer to have it inaccurate, go figure.

It's funny you mentioned that how they would prefer to have it in there favor,Well It's true!

Four years ago we switched over to gas for heat,we have it for stove & water heater anyway that first winter was record cold,not to mention our bills were record high!I called and tried to talk with them bill after bill.(phone line metering)they told me it's a cold winter & you have an old house.I got fed up & did some digging on the bills I went out side to my meter & read it myself & compaired it with the bills they were off by a country mile!WTF!

Also in there defense they told me that their metering based on last winters heating bill.
Really!Tell me how can that be?I had oil last year!!!
Then I get the...O-maybe your meter is faulty we'll come out and take a look @ it.Well it was faulty and they replaced it.They would come out each month and take a reading.
Our bill was fixed but WFT If i said nothing at all we would still be paying through the nose,but If it was anything to do on my end they would cut us off

[Sea Dangles]

Whenever they tie into the phone line to get the reading you are asking for trouble.I have heard of it screwing up home security systems and there are also privacy issues.People have also complained about the clarity of their conversations after this system is installed.Then if you call the bozos from the phone company they come and indiscriminantly start hacking away at wires.

[RickBomba]

2.05 is good Ross,
I filled up once in December, and I've been shivering for the rest of the winter.
Still got a 1/2 tank left, gonna try to make it on one fillup.
Lots O' cooking around the Bomba house..stews, etc...anything that makes steam.
Later,
Rick

[redcrbbr]

$2.30 a gallon, 200 gallons = killing me

[MoroneSaxatilis]

By the way, shouldn't it be called "heating day degrees" rather than heating degree days? I'm aware of how HDDs are calculated, but let's say the average temp on a particular day is 50. That means that there were 15 heating degree days on that DAY. How can you have X number of DAYS in any one particlar day? Wouldn't it make more sense to say that there were 15 heating day DEGREES on that day?
The nomenclature would then reflect the fact that the temp of your house was 15 DEGREES below the avarage temp for that DAY.
I've always wondered about that.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by MoroneSaxatilis

By the way, shouldn't it be called "heating day degrees" rather than heating degree days? I'm aware of how HDDs are calculated, but let's say the average temp on a particular day is 50. That means that there were 15 heating degree days on that DAY. How can you have X number of DAYS in any one particlar day? Wouldn't it make more sense to say that there were 15 heating day DEGREES on that day?
The nomenclature would then reflect the fact that the temp of your house was 15 DEGREES below the avarage temp for that DAY.
I've always wondered about that.

Just send someone to read the damn meter, like they did in the old days, that's all I ask.

My meter's outside, and easy to get to. Don't matter if no one's at home--just read the damn thing. I'd rather pay $200 every month than pay $500 one month and get a credit the next.

Same thing with LIPA, our "not-for-profit" electric company. 3 months out of 4 I get an estimated bill, or a card to mark. I wouldn't mind marking the card if Richie Kessel and his political cronies weren't making 6 figure salaries for heading up a "not-for-profit" utility. 2/3rd of LIPA employees make more than 100K a year. Can a few of those leeches and hire some meter readers for $25K a year