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

[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

[Sea Dangles]

Originally Posted by Mike P

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

I'll save my opinions about lawyers.I can also look past bitching about the salary of "not for profit" companies(put in dummies so you get bad ideas).But please,try not to belittle meter readers.We have installed over 7,000 transponders for drive-by readings within the past year at our water department and that is a lot of work .
Irony is;.... a lawyer calling ANYONE else "leeches".

[Mike P]