In article ,
N2EY wrote:

I use no current and they effectively supply no voltage. Why do I get
billed for electricity usage when I clearly can't have used any?

Simple.

Electrons come into your house (supplied by the utility) and then they go back
out.

You don't buy them - you just pay rent for the time you have them.

Well, you have 'em in your house whether they're being pumped around,
or not.

It's more like a turnpike - you pay for the amount of distance driven,
times the number of vehicles that you drive. Doesn't matter whether
you're driving north, south, or north-and-then-south again. You
drive, you burn gas, you pay the toll.

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