content: The fact that they said the magnet wouldn't affect the meter but still forced him to pay is absolute bullshit. I completely understand why this guy is/was pissed. My town is really shitty when it comes to electricity as well. Our bills lack detail about consumption and it's basically the town telling us "here's your bill, pay it and deal with it". There's no way to dispute charges, which sucks because every so often the bill will increase despite not us not doing anything that would consume more electricity. I've recently got solar panels installed on our house, but unfortunately we couldn't get enough panels to take us completely off of the towns grid. I'm looking into more ways I can become 100% solar.