Lol yeah this is why you use leashes

Lol at this rate it should be viable in like 5 years

LOLOL

"ALLEGEDLY"

Cawcawwwwwwww.

They can but not all municipalities do. If you live outdide of a municipal electric company you are kind of screwed.

But still having a monopolistic energy company like vermont does help a lot during times of energy shortage because they are better able to negotiate prices. Even though during surplus times you may pay more.

"Deregulation" or "consumer choice" is just the industry name for their style of consumer energy market

Yeah a lot of the anger on reddit is mostly just young vermonters just trying to live and constantly seeing posts like "ive never been to VT but I fell in love with it 🤩🤩🤩. I make 250k a year and will outbid all the locals on a home sight unseen 🤩 please tell me where the nearest sushi bar is"

If you want an ipa you cant get back in mass go through the alchemist and get some of their brewery specials.

The stowe public house also has a really decent selection of bottles. Lots of obscure stuff from around the state.

There will be power. It will just be expensive

75% of Massachusetts households are heated with either fuel oil or gas

I was exagerating with vermont, but only 5.93 % of households in vt are heated with electricity.

If you mean "use electricity" as in what powers the control units and fans. Then yes they use electricity. But the power draw on my natural gas furnace is less than my pc lmao.

That will happen when pigs grow wings.

In vt 95% of people do not have electric heating. Most people use gas or fuel oil.

"Not great not terrible" is exactly what you want to hear in terms of a nuclear plant lmao.

Yeah people need to keep in mind vt yanky was built before the hydro quebec dams were online. So it was profitable to build. Now > 90% of our power comes from hydro quebec. And a nucler plant could never compete with cheap hydro. It just wouldn't be profitable lmao.

No one wanted to build another one though. The energy from ca is way way cheaper.

Wouldn't be profitable to build. Hydro quebec undercut them with cheap hydro power from those massive dams that were built.

That power plant would have cost nore money to keep modern. Than to just build a second power plant. However a new nuclear power plant wouldn't be profitable because hydro quebec undercut them.

Thats because you guys have an unregulated market where your providers are trading electricity like stocks.

Very thankful VT has stable contracts with hydro quebec.

Also very thankful VT doesn't have a deregulated market like mass. Those people are screwed this winter.

All energy markets are pretend but thankfully we "buy" most of out power from hydro quebec. The energy may be generated by natural gas. But thankfully we are "purchasing" it from hydro quebec and their prices are pretty stable.

Energy markets are really just stock market nonsense that was invented in the 90s lol.

Im just glad we dont have a deregulated market like Massachusetts because holy fuck people are gonna get screwed over this winter.

Natural gas still comes from CA as far as im aware.

Now look at the burlington voting wards. We got a few snake shaped ones lol.

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Good thing vermonts energy comes from canada! This is really just bs that energy companies are trying to use to jack up energy prices since they see it happening in europe.