Cheap Heat (but what cost freedom?)
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at
5:17 pm
I am outraged the utility company is using a law designed for public safety, as an unjust, strong arm tactic to gain access into to my home. To avoid disconnection of my gas service, I am required (by Federal Law) to allow the service provider access to the inside of my home, ostensibly to conduct an “INSIDE SAFTEY INSPECTION”. While I have nothing to hide, I feel the intrusion is unwarranted because the equipment had already been inspected within the past 26 months, thus satisfying the …
Nice that you are still with me, zrodn001- thanks!
My house, my rules. I will politely tell them to take a hike.
You take care also.
“Welcome to the ussa”
~Chuckles~
“look forward seeing the video if you record them doing the “inspection”! ”
Thats not going to happen. The last thing I want is a vid of me getin’ fkd by big utility. Ive decided to terminate ~MY~ dealings with THEM.
Thanks, tine. You too!
I might do that after I tell them to get their equipment the fk out of my house.
~I~ have decided to terminate ~them~.
Thanks for commenting, AnonymousPatriot. Love your vids!
“Get off the grid!
Best advice, ever! I have been planning to do so. Looks like the gas co. has advanced my schedule a bit – so much the better. I can handle bottled gas for the small amount I need. Only have 2 gas-fired appliances remaining, and those too will soon be upgraded to alternatives.
Thanks for the nudge.
Thats the problem, jdouglasfisher. Once inside, there is no telling what they might choose to pay attention to. Screw ‘em! Its none of their business. They can stay the fk out.
wow, call a lawyer, that’s teetering on harassment, it’s intrusive, and offensive, it’s not even your job to call them and tell them you got a gas stove, perhaps your lawyer should call them?
I wouldn’t be too hasty.
With these little games, they have to be played by their rules. I’d let them inspect, but if any further undue treatment is measured towards you, I’d first write a letter to their customer service area, detailing the treatment you have received thus far, your reasons for not using the service & a request for some sort of compensation for this outrageous behaviour.
They may well say that automated services don’t count; have the counter-punch ready, is all I’m saying.
The counter punch would be litigation, but again, you have to play by their rules. Get a quote from a lawyer (free consultation, government legal help lines, etc) and collate the evidence for your suit and then litigate. Sure, you’ve resolved to push them off anyway, but I’m not sure that (according to US law) you, as a citizen, can allow your abode to be without state-run heating. Then again, i have not investigated this as much as you obviously have, and I wish you well.
Peace.
Our electric company is a little fishy. We tried extra hard to conserve electricity (heating with gas and wood) last month, and our bill was 30 dollars higher. Man I wish I could get my lights on solar power. These utility companies border on criminal in my opinion. Good idea taping them if they come into your home.
very scary. Thanks for sharing.
Hey CD, long time no chat!! There should not be any gas company parts in your house. The only parts they should take out after a request for disconnect would be the meter and the pressure regulator valve, on the outside of the house. They would have no business inside the house. Same goes for water & electric utilities. Great video!! Thanx for sharing. Peace2U!!
Typical American Bureauacracy. The little guy being strong armed by the common man. Another big money dictatorship. Let people freeze. It’s all about the money. Sickening. I’d shoot every one of the bastards if I could.
Great vid.
Well since we’re just debt slaves in open prison farms we have to deal with the other slaves in the bureaucracy
Their just people like you & I for the most part, tasked with performance goals & timetables, they see delays as a nuisance
I would phone them back, mention the earlier recorded message, cite the old reconnection as an actual inspection, say they came right in. If they don’t go for that then you might as well let them come, guide them to the lines & escort them out. Hide the skeleton
“at no cost to you”
Yet.
their ‘concern for your safety’ is not only insincere, it is non existent. bastards.
I agree w/SlaveStorm. get a # where you can actually speak to someone and cite the reconnection as your last inspection. Videotape or somehow record your phone coversation too so they can’t say you ‘didn’t respond’. IF they still insist on coming out I would greet them with my ‘MANDATORY’ video camera and charge them a mandatory service fee for me having to be available for their mandatory inspection.
of course they wont pay it but it would make a great vlog.
oh and heck yea more power to you for socking it to ‘em by getting that wood stove & refusing to let them continue robbing you blind for the gas bill …oh yeah , I’d tell them all about themselves when they came to visit.
lol yeah good idea, cut the ties.
holy crap CD! they’re frigging nuts. These people disconnected me some years back at the end of winter and my poor son was FREEZING as the winter temps lingered into spring. I had to leave work to apply for assistance over a 3 day period, send my son away for days, they didn’t put my heat on for over a week, meantime, the state wanted to take my CHILD because i had NO HEAT!! we are not free.I bet they think you’re tampering with the meter!!
Unjust and unfair government regulation ruling against competion and permittimg public utility monopolies. The Utilities lobbied the state ruthlessly for monopoly rights – money makes the politician loyal – this started back in the day when the electric light became mainstream – amazing corruption !!!
Blame your government for allowing this – vent on them – they sold you out -
I discovered a GREAT way to reduce my gas usage by about 70 percent. I just leave my furnace OFF for the MILD MONTHS of october, november and december… then jan/feb i turn furnace ON. mild months of march april may is FURNACE OFF time again. my house never gets colder than about 60 degrees anyway, so we cover up in a quilt, sleep better at 60 deg anyway. I fully expect similar harassment such as you got real soon. electric company does this also.
You are absolutely right, framistan. This heating season will be the second in a row I will have had my gas-fired furnace completely disconnected. Im still resisting the gas co continued efforts to conduct their inside home inspection, with constant threats to disconnect my service.
At this point, I could practically do without it altogether, though I do have one gas-fired appliance still in service which I could easily convert. Still, I think its only right the gas co be accountable to their agreements.
The other part of conservation is to eliminate as much heat loss as possible. Air infiltration is a huge factor, as is thermal insulation.