Smart meter movement stirs rowdy debate in Texas [1]

The Seattle Times - 8/25/12

By SARAH KUTA, [2]Associated Press

DALLAS — Thelma Taormina keeps a pistol at her Houston-area home to protect against intruders. But one of the last times she used it, she said, was to run off a persistent utility company worker who was trying to replace her old electricity meter with a new digital unit.

"This is Texas." she declared at a recent public hearing on the new meters. "We have rights to choose what appliances we want in our home."

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