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Title: Reduction Of Gas Theft
Author: Joe Hurst
Source: 1982 Gulf Coast Measurement Short Course (Now called ASGMT)
Year Published: 1982
Abstract: When the first gas company began in Baltimore, Maryland in 1817, gas was not measured. Customers were billed on a flat rate basis for a given number of gas lights when used for a reasonable nianber of hours per day. There was no incentive for the customer to conserve gas because of the flat rate and many left their lights burning during daylight hours. When the New York Gas Company started in 1823, wet meters were used to measure gas consumption at the rate of 1.00 per one-hundred cubic feet, plus a charge for the rent of the meter.

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