They told us about going to the protest / demonstrations but I believe all of maybe a classroom full of people showed up. :/

There are private ranches in Texas that are bigger than RI

That's not relevant. The cost now is from what they paid months ago. The utility needs to pre-buy a certain amount to ensure there are no shortages. The price now only affects the future costs, it doesn't affect the cost to consumers now.

And one could argue that North and South Dakota do not have enough people to be seperate states or Wyoming for that matter.

This needs to be a pinned thread.

Dang! Yeah it really sucks. Utilities in this state are going to have to come down or people will start leaving fast.

Electric heat costs are brutal. I paid nearly as much for electric heat when I rented a 2 BR apartment as I do now for gas heating in a 2 story house. Plus the electric rate spike is much higher.

Its always super interesting to check posts that are pro russia and pro gop or anti biden. They almost all are created after Nov 2020, usually right after.

This buffoon is dec 2020 lol. Its a little too obvious buddy, gtfo

When you fly into dfw its a 15 min train ride to the rental cars! damn airport so big!

I wouldn't say that with all the disappearances that happened in Yosemite but I'm in The Missing 411 and the supernatural so I don't know how normal people feel about it but in terms of preserving Land beauty yes it is much better managed although we do have Patchogue state forest, the Acadia management area and some historic sights

And better managed

not true lol

We should propose that the Rhode Island be added to the SI as an international standard for colloquial representation of geographic area

According to the Internet, Russia could fit 5,445 Rhode Islands. Or alternately, 5.445 kilorhodeislands

That’s numbers aren’t real. Electricity went up like 47 percent and gas went up like 15 percent

natural gas just traded to a new low, lowest since June 2021 and NGRID is just rolling us

I absolutely love the out of whack driving it's like 90 in a 50

omg i thought i was in some video game w the crazy ass onramps in dallas. i think i read even the dfw airport is almost as big as ri!

When I went to Dallas it took me forever to get out that City and everyone drives like shiy like worse then nyc

eh i dunno. we don't fit in w either mass or ct so im happy being our own state.

One of the craziest things living here was the first time I flew out to LA and as we were coming up to lax it was literally just all city as far as you could see in every direction even from all the way up in the plane! Then coming back to RI and you can pretty much see the entire state and then some out just 1 window of the plane

this should have been our tourist slogan

so is Dallas. we're tiny.

Are you using a lot of hot water? $280 seems high! I'm single and my bill is $98 this month. I also keep t-stat in the 60s: 60 when not home during the weekdays, 65-67 from 5-10p, 60 overnight. Weekends I'll set it around 63-65 when I'm home during the day.

Edit: there is also the option of "balanced billing" but I'm not sure if it works out in the end... might end up paying more somehow. I don't trust how they calculate the average cost lol and I like the idea of paying <$30 for heat in the spring/summer months

It's going to be an expensive winter. But based on future contracts for natural gas right now prices have come WAY down. From a peak of around $9 to under $4 now. That could change obviously but Europe is in a better place now than they were a few months ago. This is not really a supply issue. We have plenty of gas. The problem really is we're shipping it overseas because of the war and it's costing Americans big time.

Malted Barley on Mondays