City Public Service, San Antonio’s Energy Monopoly, Threatens to disconnect my service

I bought the house I live in back in 2006 (March/April, don’t remember exactly) and realized the electricity meter was messed up. I called CPS and notified them of this, they have it on file, sometime around September of 2006 if I remember correctly.

The CSR was fairly rude and eventually told me there was nothing wrong with the meter, I didn’t know what I was talking about, and they wouldn’t replace the meter. I left it at that, thinking I had done my part as a happy customer of CPS. Fast forward to May of 2010, someone came out and replaced my meter, stating it was bad. September 10th, I received a letter stating I’m being billed $693.08 for my unbilled usage from November 2009 through April 2010, but their rules & regulations only allow them to bill for three (3) months.
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