There's Greeks in Vermont??

And you can always drive up to Montreal which has tons of good restaurants instead of driving down to shitty CT. I'm sure Montreal would be closer for most Vermonter's

Agreed, but the poster didn't say a heat pump, he said,

>I am considering using portable electric heaters for the next month

1. The social contract is bullshit and an outdated theory of social cohesion.

2. The reason we value the bald eagle above deer is quite literally just nationalism. That social relevance is just nationalism. The deer is literally no less important as the eagle.

This is my proposal for where Vermont could look toward expanding its passenger rail system within the next couple decades. With a few notable exceptions, it largely utilizes existing track and right-of-ways, which could reduce costs associated with building up the network. I tried to both include connections to major cities not served by Vermont's existing network (Montreal and Boston) as well as new stations for regions poorly served by existing rail and Vermont's interstate highway system. I marked existing stations in black and new stations in color, and used OpenStreetMap!

Some goat cheese would be nice on that too

Best answer right here, no need to read further...

If you have a glass door on your woodstove, you can tell if you are producing creosote. So, occasionally I'll get a blackened glass, but then I just run it real hot after that and it clears up the glass and the stove pipe. We have the chimney cleaned every two years and get good reports on the amount of creosote that gets cleaned out.

You should run you stove hot for 45min-to-an-hour every day to keep the creosote build up down, but we do about every other the past 5 years. Do you have a thermometer on the stove pipe? If you don't, make sure you get one, get it into the burn zone daily if you are worried about it. You make creosote no matter how hot you burn, it's just important to get the wood stove up to temp to burn it off while it's not going to start a chimney fire.

But let's be honest, are you really burning wood if you don't have at least one chimney fire?

I followed the links and i have to say.. They paid him for that? To each their own i guess. That does bring up the point though, he got paid. That is where the rights transfer from one person to another and the school would have been within their rights to black it out the next day imo.

To each their own I guess. I personally wouldn't go out of my way for it.

This is the way.

There is nothing Vermont about pizza lol. Most pizza places out here make subpar food that people are stuck with. Pizza on main in Morrisville is an example. So bad. The rest of their menu is decent tho.

This is not a debate. It will go bad if it's opened and not refrigerated.

Parker pie is actually great and deserves a nod

I've lived in Vermont for my entire 34 years and have traveled all across the country and tried just about every famous pizza style ever.

There is no Vermont style. It's just standard ass pizza.

I work at a pizzeria but we’re New York style… I’ve never heard of Vermont style in my many years of working in restaurants in VT

> Any long term planning I can do to move away from oil? No natural gas in my town, as in most of Vermont.

A Vermod, Pretty Good House, or Passive House? You could just bank all the money you currently burn.

Yeah…oil is expensive. I am in Burlington so we have gas heat.

Our last place was in E. Montpelier and was Oil forced hot air.

Could look into more efficient heating options, but the retrofit might be expensive.

When is the last time your furnace was serviced?

How old is the furnace?

I wish I could switch to natural gas 😭 they don't have it where I am. Not even the town has it. Closest town with natural gas is over 20 miles. Hopefully they make their way here eventually, but they may never.

Technology Connections on YouTube has a great video on heat pumps. My favorite heat pump fact is that, while electric heating is 100% efficient (not counting transmission losses), heat pumps can be over 100% efficient.

There's one in peru Vermont and I know the locals would be cool there not sure how your locals are

Thank you for the suggestion but it's a little more "rustic" than what I'm looking for.

Electric heat will never be as efficient or cheap as oil heat for a large square footage. And as oil has been above $5 all year I think, compared to $3 or less in past years, it's gonna hurt.

I've turned my whole house, except for two small rooms, down to 50 degrees on the thermostat. On most average days this has substantially reduced the amount of time the furnace is running, but it also means I need a jacket to stay in most of the other rooms. I've also stopped some wasteful washing habits w.r.t. hot water.

In a very small room I use electric heat which works reasonably well for that small space, not least because the hot water furnace radiator is in the floor and works very inefficiently.

Anyway, electric won't be your answer to heat the whole house. Good luck.

Oil/heating is no more expensive in Vermont than any other northern state, in fact our electricity is cheaper than many states because of its source. If you want to know how much your next oil fill-up will cost, look at the price of diesel at the pump, subtract about 80 cents per gallon, and that's probably what you'll pay for home heating oil.

yup it's up but down from fall prices.....https://www.ecvt.net/cost-heating-fuel

Refrigerate after opening.

Have you considered the Grange in Berlin?