Happy to provide manual meter readings once a month, no big deal for the privilege of having gas from a pipeline I paid circa £3K to have installed circa 40 years ago electricity that can be occasionally be cut off due to storm damage ...Just more than happy to have such convinces that I in no way take for granted... BTW, I also depend upon a septic tank system, best not to take that for granted either, seems there are a whole new raft of regs for relative to the design and certification for such human waste systems, that seem likely to really complicate the continued usage of elderly oft times ignored septic tank installations.. Hmm..