Your gas meter is an accurate automatic measuring instrument. It keeps track of how much gas flows through it by counting the filling and emptying of the compartments inside the meter. Since each compartment fills with just the same amount of gas every time, the measuring is very accurate. And because one compartment is emptied as another is being filled, the flow of gas to the various appliances is smooth and uninterrupted. Here's how to read your meter:

1. Add two zeros to the numbers on the meter.
2. This is the meter reading, 454600 (in cubic feet of gas).

How Much Gas Do You Use?

One reading doesn't tell you how much gas you use. Using the table below, put your first reading on line 1 below, with the date and time.

Take another reading several days later, and enter the reading on line 2. Subtract reading 1 from reading 2. This tells you the number of cubic feet of gas used during the time between the readings.

Gas companies take readings at regular intervals.

	Meter Reading	Date	Time	Cubic feet of gas used since last reading
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2
3
4