What Irked You Today?

[johnyrotten]

5 minutes ago, stitchdup said:

i bet that jeep crossed the border more than once

 I'm sure it did. Albany NY area, so probably runs down to NYC. Same idea. 

[Calb56]

19 hours ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

 

Texted this to my son and he said that was him today and sent this photo back 🤣

[Engine 51]

Updates. Phone, tablet, apps, PC, dash-cam and on and on. Every. Single. Day. No idea how there can be so many updates all the time.

[A modeler named mike]

This is actually Saturday's irk. When I went to retrieve the mail, other than the cool Show Rod model kit book I received was this months BGE electric bill. Last months bill was $84.43 and this one..$232.13 

No way did I use that much more electricity. The AC is set the on the same temp. as usual, and nothing else has been running that shouldn't be. Tomorrow I'll be calling to dispute the reading and demanding an explanation. The jerks double billed me last year, ripping me off $64.?? and never responded to my inquiry on that one. We need  competition with our electricity supplied here in Maryland. BGE has a Monopoly.

[johnyrotten]

22 minutes ago, A modeler named mike said:

Last months bill was $84.43 and this one..$232.13 

Did they take an estimated reading of the meter and bill you according to that? National grid here in NY has done that to me in the past. If so, dispute it.

[slusher]

the new metters are read from the office . No meter readers. That’s how it’s done here"….

[johnyrotten]

6 hours ago, slusher said:

the new metters are read from the office . No meter readers. That’s how it’s done here"….

Yeah, National grid just had a huge "campaign" about their new smart meter. They touted it would save you money, a ton of people saw their bill jump in price. I opted out and that's an eleven dollar fee a month. They should change their name to National greed.

[peteski]

You should be able to read kWh the display on the meter itself to see if it is close to what is shown on the bill.  You could start keep tracking those readings yourself.

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 hours ago, johnyrotten said:

Yeah, National grid just had a huge "campaign" about their new smart meter. They touted it would save you money, a ton of people saw their bill jump in price. I opted out and that's an eleven dollar fee a month. They should change their name to National greed.

My local electric co-op has been using "smart" meters for years, and our rates are the lowest in the state and some of the lowest in the country.

Our service in the event of weather-related outages is also exemplary, and their interactive website is one of the best I've ever seen anywhere for anything.

They don't generate their own power, have to purchase it and mark it up, all the employees make decent money, their vehicles are plentiful and look to be newish or very well maintained, and I can't understand why so many electric utility companies nationwide can't match our prices.

Can you say "poor management and greed", boys and girls?

[johnyrotten]

40 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

My local electric co-op has been using "smart" meters for years, and our rates are the lowest in the state and some of the lowest in the country.

Our service in the event of weather-related outages is also exemplary, and their interactive website is one of the best I've ever seen anywhere for anything.

They don't generate their own power, have to purchase it and mark it up, all the employees make decent money, their vehicles are plentiful and look to be newish or very well maintained, and I can't understand why so many electric utility companies nationwide can't match our prices.

Can you say "poor management and greed", boys and girls?

I can't really complain service wise, we've had some serious weather related issues that slammed the whole area, at that point you do what you can do. We do have the  random black out when a sub station or transformer gives up, i chalk that up to maintenance schedule and age of equipment. What gets me is it cost me twice as much in service and delivery fees than actual kw/h used. To me that's just another name for a tax.

[Tim W. SoCal]

7 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I can't understand why so many electric utility companies nationwide can't match our prices.

Can you say "poor management and greed", boys and girls?

Our beloved gubner sez we produce so much excess solar and wind energy here in what was previously The Golden State, that we're jamming up the national grid and we have to pay much more.

[espo]

37 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

Our beloved gubner sez we produce so much excess solar and wind energy here in what was previously The Golden State, that we're jamming up the national grid and we have to pay much more.

There used to be a saying among California escapees, "Last taxpayer out turn off the lights".