My provider of electricity in Champaign County, Illinois, has installed devices to measure *remotely* the electrical energy used each month.
My statement for August of 2014 includes the lines: "Total kWh used (new meter) 260" and "Total kWh used (old meter) 0". Further, my statement for September is 1460 kWh. In retrospect, it is obvious to me that my remote-measurement device had failed sometime in August of 2014. My provider installed the "new meter" with no notification in advance to me of the failure of the "old meter," or notification of the apparent manual "reconstruction" of my "electricity used" in August and September, a spiked increase of about 500 kWh! (My neighbor's bill shows a *reduction* from August to September, an actual decrease in cooling needed!) Is this an example of Evasion, Deception, or Fraud? Whatever the case, it has stimulated by interest in the question of energy contained in gasoline blends and fair marketing of blends. Eugene Mechtly
