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Would you sweat out a heatwave for $2.50 per hour? Obama Met
Smart Meters, Obama Meters
Would you sweat out a heatwave for $2.50 per hour?
By Steve Milloy
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Following up on yesterday’s story about Baltimore Gas & Electric’s program to install 2 million Obama-meters in homes, http://greenhellblog.com/2009/07/13/oba ... n-the-way/ BG&E says that on peak days (i.e., very hot days when there’s a lot of demand for air conditioning), its Obama-meters helped…
… lots of customers cut power use [between 2p-7pm] to 30kwh from 40kwh… [earning a rebate of] $12.50 for that day,
according to a report in SmartGridToday. http://www.smartgridtoday.com/
So that works out to being paid $2.50 per hour to sweat at home — much less than the minimum wage, which is scheduled to rise to $7.25 per hour on July 24.
Of course, if you went to the shopping mall or visited neighbors with air conditioning on those days then it would be money-for-nothing.
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