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Beware of The Smart Meter

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Beware of the plan government leaders and executives of the electrical utility companies want to force upon our citizens in using the Smart Meter to replace the analog meter when reading your electric light meter.

Smart Meters are being installed on homes across the country, replacing the old style analog meters. The power companies are telling their customers that the Smart Meters will help them save money on electric bills by helping control usage. They also claim that the Smart Meters will help the power companies operate more efficiently by eliminating the need for meter readers to physically read the meters as they do with analog meters. However, these sales pitches from the power companies hide the real facts behind the push to replace every analog meter in the nation with the Smart Meters.

There are several major problems for homeowners as the Smart Meters are installed. Here are just a few:

• The cost of heating and cooling homes with Smart Meters is going up because of the inefficient alternative energy that is more expensive than coal and nuclear power.
• Homeowners with Smart Meters in place are discovering that they can’t heat or cool their homes during peak power usage as the electric companies control the thermostats and automatically cut back on usage.
• Property rights are being violated by Smart Meter installers who come onto property against the will of the owners.
• A 2012 Congressional Report now reveals that power compa able to read data from the meters that reveals residents’ daily schedules and their personal behavior, the types of appliances they use, even if there are certain types of medical equipment in use in the home. This information can then be sold to private concerns or placed in government files. It can lead to identity theft and unwarranted government surveillance.
• Evidence is now emerging that the Smart Meters, which operate by emitting electromagnetic signals, has become a health hazard, as thousands of Smart Meters in neighborhoods blast a non-stop signal, creating what is called Electromagnetic Smog. The electromagnetic radiation is dangerous for the elderly, children, pets, and those subject to such disorders as epilepsy, heart disease and more. It can lead to disruptive sleep patterns, chronic fatigue, depression, headaches and much more.

As Americans become aware of these threats they have begun to oppose the installation of Smart Meters on their property. Some local and state government’s, when faced with the health complaints, have offered opt out provisions. Others have responded using force, resulting in arrests, as in Naperville, Illinois. In other places, power companies have shut off electricity to homes of those protesting the Smart Meters.

As the battle against the Smart Meters grows across the nation, Americans need to understand the issue, the dangers, the real reasons behind the government’s drive to force them on angry and protesting homeowners, violating their property rights and endangering their health in the process.

Smart Meters are designed to provide government with detailed information of your energy use, your movements in your home, the way you use your personal private time, and even how many people are in your home at any given time. It is an unconstitutional invasion of your home by government, as set down in the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The American Policy Center (APC), has produced a comprehensive special report entitled “Sustainable Development and the Control of Energy (The growing battle over Smart Meters).” This report details the real reasons behind the government’s enforcement of the Smart Meters, the health and privacy violations, and the political agenda behind it all. This special report is available free. I urge every concerned American to get a copy.

All of the above information was taken and modified to present in a proper format from an article, Tom Deweese wrote on June 3, 2013, entitled THE GROWING THREAT OF SMART METERS appearing in NewsWithViews.com. Please go his site and secure the report.
 

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Couple things here:

• I don't know of any one who "heats their home" with a smart meter. The only thing the meter does is record how much electricity you're using.
• Smart meters cannot throttle electricity usage, only shut it down.
• Well, they could just shut off your electricity considering they own it and are providing you with the service. It's a service upgrade that they control. Don't like it? Find a new service or generate your own electricity.
• A meter can only guess at these things based on how much electricity is being used in the house and how much typical items consume. It's not like it can read what models of things you're using.
• Sitting next to a cellphone? How about a wireless router? Guess what, you're getting those same electro-magnetic fields from those. They are all around us.

That being said, it could very well cut back on costs a bit (but probably won't because these companies are greedy) because they will no longer need to hire meter readers to drive around and write down numbers.

You also didn't post a source for this information, though I'm sure there are a ton of big-brother conspiracies out there involving them. So long as the companies privacy statement includes that they will not share data with anyone including government, I've got no problem with them.
 
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One thing that bothers me about the company I'm with is that they only read my meter once every 3 months and then base the monthly cost as an average. We actually spend more money because of that on months where we don't have as much running.

I'm just going to get a wind turbine and call it a day. :p
 
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I highly regret that our smart meter was installed.

There is one advantage--we can track our daily and average energy use and find opportunities to economize and make our bill smaller.

Unfortunately our energy bills nearly doubled after the smart meter was installed. The power company tested the smart meter and claims it is accurate and that our old 35-year old meter must have been running low before. There doesn't seem to be any recourse. But the power company has no hook in to control our appliances or heat pump with the meter. It just reads that we are using a lot of electricity and when. The pattern seems accurate, i.e. there are spikes with weather, when we run dishwasher/washing machine, take long hot showers, etc.
 
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