Fabulously-humble

Fabulously-humble t1_j6cpo2a wrote

I don't understand. What is better than free?

Windmills and solar panels... once you build them. A little maintenance and free energy. No digging up energy. No putting it in or on a truck or tanker ship. No license plates and replacement tires and registrations and hiring drivers and ship captains and crew.

Nothing like that bullshit. Just sunlight and wind.

100 years from now I hope we think all that old fashioned stuff is stupid. Because it is.

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Fabulously-humble t1_j2rhml2 wrote

My town did. It's about 50% of what National Grid charges for power. Not for transmission. National Grid owns the poles and wires so their charge is basically fixed and there's nothing that can be done about it.

But the power provider can be changed at will.

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Fabulously-humble t1_j28lxiv wrote

This area is dripping with history. I'm not kidding. You can hardly drive 5 straight miles without seeing a historical plaque.

This is where so and so general crossed this river with troops for such and such battle in the colonial war. This is where such and such tribe of Indians (the plaque doesn't say Native Americans but sometimes it does list the specific tribe) did this or that thing.

You'll regularly pass buildings that were erected in the early 1800s and drive through towns that were founded in the 1700s and even 1600s.

It's so common that as a resident I know all this and see it all the time but it hardly registers.

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Fabulously-humble t1_ivomizk wrote

Cool. We could’ve saved a few hundred a year going to a community trash pickup but “no government buttholes are going to run my life!!!” Loonies showed up at the town hall meeting and screamed it down.

I was pissed. Now we are still stuck with like 5 trash haulers and the rates are terrible and the friggin huge heavy trucks destroy our roads.

People can be so dumb sometimes. Sigh.

Anyway - rant done. Lol. Take care fellow Oxford resident.

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