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And park on your lawn?

$18 per month really isn't that bad. Most gas lights use about $0.05 per hour when on. If you run it 4 hours every day, and take into account the pilot light running 24/7, you should be right around $15.00 per month in actual usage.

And park on my lawn!

Shawn, that sounds like a real good reason to me to switch it to electric. Or not to have it on at all. I'm glad to hear that the gas co is being realistic, but that's $18/month I could spend on something else (like my Netflix subscription, or the Speed channel).

Gas Lamp posts????

I say turn it off before Jack the Ripper starts skulking about.

I wanted to replace my fence in 2005, the contractor wouldn't touch it 'til I had the gas company come out and map the gas line (which goes south from the outside meter, the fence ends 2 feet north of it)... Gas Company Guy (GCG) comes out, and hooks up either voltage or tone to it, and walks along with his magic signal pick up stick, and dots along the ground where it runs.

I said "can you tell me how deep the pipe is? I want to take these hollyhocks out with a pick..." / "No, sir, I can't tell you that, we would be responsible if it were off by an inch or two... but this tool, if I push this button, reads it out in inches on the screen" - and points to the 12 on the screen... I ask "would that work up at the front of the house so you could get a slope?" / "If I held it over here, it would show me a number on the screen (22") for this point, too!"

Really liked that guy. :P

Bren R.

ben, the line locator guy that marked the electrical and cable did pretty much the same thing for me... he pointed to the Depth on the read out, and let me read the read out with him.. He never "told" me the depth... and it was VERY helpful knowing an approximate depth when i was leveling the ground above the cable and electric line...

Man, I lost both Rs in my name there! :P

Bren R.