Saving Money

Everyone is trying to save money to cope with the current economic situation in our World. Today I have but one suggestion on how we can all realize a considerable savings on our Utility Bills. Of course it involves some outside of the Box thinking. At the current time we have a meter reader for each utility that the average residential home in a town or city requires.

A Water Meter

A Natural Gas Meter

An Electric Power Meter

Now for my money saving suggestion which would involved the utility companies. For example the County of Bibb in Georgia could be divided into three sections. Each section would have about the same number of dwellings which consume water, gas and electricity.

The utility companies could set up their meter reader crews to cover one third of the county or one section and read all the meters at each dwelling. No one would loose their job. They would have to be trained to read all three meters at their assigned dwellings.

The cost of doing business would be reduced when one considers that currently the vehicles with different meter readers must cover the the whole county. The cost of fuel to keep these vehicles on the road would be reduced and the vehicles would probably last longer considering that they would cover fewer miles each month.

Thus the utilities could reduce their cost to the customer.

From my own personal investigation of the meters which are read at my dwelling place I think that it would be possible for one person to read them all and punch in all the data on the hand held computer which the meter readers currently employ.

I feel that it is high time that our Utilities consider the impact of continuing to do business as in the past. We all need to work together to reduce our fixed cost to allow our citizens to prosper.

Thank You!!!!