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you are misunderstanding the original commenter's meaning. Bob Kiss actually had ~52% of the vote using IRV... this is why he won at the end of Round 3. His 29% total at the end of Round 1 is what you are likely remembering.

I'm not sure the details of why Burlington's education efforts failed... but there are many success stories we can look to and learn from now.

I had oil last year and was able to switch to natural gas over the summer. Bills are about 1/4 what they were last year

Yes. That space is great. But I’ve noticed most weddings aside from church weddings tend to have the ceremony and reception at the same place to make it easier for guests. I could see having the ceremony in Hubbard Park or another outdoor space given the natural beauty here, but not having it in one building just to move to another for the reception.

Yup, they are effective and not economical at all.

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Depends. What model stove?

If it's a newer EPA stove they're built to be airtight except for the inlet you're adjusting. Some brands (looking at your Vermont Castings) have an ungodly amount of gaskets. If any one of them leak, your burn time can drop drastically. Same if its a catalytic stove and the cat is clogged or trashed.

Second Little River State park or Waterbury in general.

Highly recommend the Hearthstone Green Mountain Series! We have a 60 and it heats our 1500sf home pretty well. (plus its a Morrisville based company!)

The catalyst makes the logs last longer & get more heat out of the wood. There is currently a federal 22% tax credit for installing an efficient woodstove which helps cut down on the upfront cost & VT Efficiency has a $400 rebate for replacing an old stove with an energy efficient one.

Do you belong to one of the Credit Unions around? VSECU has VHeat where you lock in how many gallons of oil you'll buy over the winter & it locks your price per gallon- which is lower than the market rate.

Would also recommend looking at what your insulation situation is like- VT Efficiency has some work on that as well.

For example- we were getting oil fill ups once a month last year (eek!), saw the way the oil prices were going and decided to bite the bullet and get a woodstove. We've only needed one oil fill up so far since last May & still have a 1/4 of a tank. The caveat is that we both work from home. But we do our last load of wood around 10 pm and oil kicks on around 5 am- which is almost a full work day. Plenty of hot coals left to restart the fire around 7 am.

Apples, maple and white cheddar, sometimes also included sausage or bacon or ham.

My friend had a furnace problem for three days and had to use a space heater in his office (he is WFH).

Dude tells me his electric bill doubled last month! Watch out running those space heaters all day.

Don't you get a lot of extra creosote leaving it on low all day long? We just started using wood as a "primary" heat source, but I don't want to leave it smoking all day long, and create a chimney problem due to being oxygen-starved.

And yeah, you can revive anything that's glowing relatively easily. One small piece of paper and a couple bits of kindling and you'll have it back to roaring in a few minutes.

this method continues encouraging people to hedge their vote - voting against a candidate they dislike rather than for a candidate they really want. The beauty of ranked choice is that there is no need to hedge.

It would probably be more productive to just read the other posts to see the other points I made rather than repeating that assertion over and over as if repeating makes it more true…

ME has IRV so if you had lived in ME you too may have had first hand knowledge… it doesn’t appear your maturity level is such that you participated when Burlington tried it.

Good day.

Not a thing. It's just pizza. Typically overpriced and mediocre

It sounds like you are remembering the gripes of the 2009 mayoral election in Burlington specifically? I would ask that you consider the many, many more success stories. Ranked-choice elects candidates who more accurately represent the will of the populace they govern and to me that is very worth the change

your reasons are "someone bad was elected and we repealed it". those are not actual talking points lmao neither actually addresses a positive or negative of ranked choice voting. they're just things that have happened. simply state a list of actual reasons you dislike it.

abortion protection was repealed. that doesn't mean abortion protection is bad, it means people can be stupid.

> The point is I have first hand knowledge and since you didn’t live in ME you don’t.

what does living in Maine have to do with this

Last time I noticed, dry wood was running around $300 a cord. Our beast used 6 cord before we sent it down the road. That’s not exactly cheap. Pellets run about the same for way less work, and gramma doesn’t have to chase spiders all over the parlor. 😉

I like your thinking! Caledonia Spirits was on the list!

If you don’t get it, just vote for one. Works like an old fashioned vote. If you candidate isn’t a majority, they get eliminated

Even in 2000 we weren’t sure if people voted for who they wanted

I switched from oil to ductless heat pumps this year. It’s costing me 70% less to heat my house and I’m keeping it 3 degrees warmer and I run them 24/7…never turn the temp down at night.They operate efficiently to -22 Fahrenheit.

I’m done with oil forever and will never pickup a piece of firewood.

There are DIY units you can install yourself that are nearly as efficient as what pros install.

1400 sq ft house, and I installed the pumps myself. Total coast was around $6000. Bore a pro and it would have been around $16,000. It would still pay itself off over several years, and the house is 70 degrees 24/7. It’s really a no brainer!

$2000 for December..

Heating oil companies can get fucked.

Traditionally true, less so these days. Heat pumps are pretty darn cheap to run, and solar panels can help offset costs. Though both require a significant investiture.

See more context and the pictures of the murals from https://www.vnews.com/Vermont-Law-School-to-paint-over-mural-about-Underground-Railroad-35136293