I had made my statement about meters based upon information I had been told by an old timer many years ago and I never actually confirmed it. He insisted that we always keep our load evenly distributed in the panel, which always makes perfect sense to me. HIS logic however was that if one leg has say, 60 amps running on it and 35 on the other that the meter would register the higher leg and bill that usage. Like I said, I never knew if this was true or if he was pulling my leg. I have just always done this since then.
