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> Why are consumers okay with paying a metered fee for electricity, water, and gasoline?

I don't think they are; certainly in my country people hate metered water. And people love fixed-rate mortgages even when they'd pay less on floating. If people had the option of unmetered electricity or gasoline, I think they'd take it.

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It could be a regional thing, or it's possible that I am unusual myself, but I've never thought twice about metered electricity, but that's largely because I've never been hit with anything I consider unfair like I have with both mobile phones and home Internet.