Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle


SMART METERS: No Federal Mandate August 15, 2011 by Marti Oakley


“This Standard would also allow utilities to recover from ratepayers any capital, operating expenditures, or other costs of the smart grid investment, including a reasonable rate-of- return.”


THERE IS NO FEDERAL SECURITY MANDATE FOR SMART METERS, according to George W. Arnold, the national coordinator for smart-grid interoperability at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce is said not to be involved in regulations but is only tasked with promoting standards among industries. While both the 2005 and 2007 faux energy bills were codified into public laws, NO part of them


creates a federal law pertaining to individual consumers or dictating that the public must be forced to comply with provisions of SMART Grid. Contrary to the bleating of manufacturers and utility talking heads, who claim there is no “opt out,” the fact is you, the consumer, must be offered the meter, or request a meter and “OPT IN.” No one can be forced to comply with an unrevealed contract between private corporations, and to which you were never a party and had no knowledge of.


Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008: An Energy Tax Package was under


development in Congress for several years prior to 2008. In September 2008, the package was finally enacted into law via its inclusion in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. This tax package shifted tax liabilities from corporations who were already posting massive record profits, onto the public.


(The picture of Hitler was included in Marty Oakley’s article, but no comment was written. The following are my editorial comments:)


“Hitler did not yet have such advanced technology as our modern world does now. Still he had a system of spying, surveillance, data collection and control through national ID cards and numbers and a police system called the Gestapo, who would reward people for snitching on their neighbors. People who dared to speak out against the government would be gathered up and put in concentration camps or shot in the open streets. SmartMeters make spying, surveillance, data mining, snitching, control --all so much easier. The detrimental effects on health make it less difficult to “cull the herd” and thin down the population. SmartMeters are a dictator’s dream come true!”


Section 1307 State Consideration of Smart Grid Energy 2007, Page 6: This Section amends PURPA (Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act) to create two additional PURPA Standards. (Note: Two new PURPA Standards are also created in Section 532.)


These standards are in


the form of requirements on parties such as utilities to undertake certain actions. The standards are not directly prescriptive on these parties, however; it is up to state utility regulatory commissions, or the bodies that govern other types of utilities, to decide that the standards should be actually adopted by utilities subject to their jurisdiction.


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