In your utopia then your taxes get raised significantly to make up for the shortfall of us subsidizing your communities. You’re fine with that I assume? Why can’t you just coexist with us? We love our time in vermont.

And the poor insulation/inefficiency argument also applies to heating one's house through any heat source if we are talking ability to keep a house warm. Upping insulation should be the very first thing everyone does especially in older homes regardless of heat source.

This is hilarious and true.

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Woah, well over 90 days! Shoot, I didn’t know that I was in the presence of a partial-Vermonter!!?

Go to hell and take your money with you. Eat the rich.

Tyranny

The college also isn't the government. I don't know if you're incapable of critical and real-world thought or you've just selected your point to argue and keep digging in further.

Oh, that's great. I have anxiety and I gotta go there to get my medication so that will be fun for my anxious brain. This is really good to know for my job though, so I don't take my clients there. Not sure why we haven't gotten a warning from work. Many of our clients go there all the time. This feels like something out staff should know about. Even though most are fake and it seems to have been a prank, my work should be taking this seriously. Thank you for posting about it.

Which one

I don't think you're Hitler for not agreeing with me, I just think you're incapable of thinking critically. The important thing to focus on here is not the means, but the end. However you arrive at the end it doesn't change the outcome, despite the means. Yes, if the decision by a governing body is to physically remove tangible literature from a designated repository of literature, directly as a result from an overly bloated and mismanaged administration that is trying to navigate funding The outcome. Is. The. Same. Call it a tyranny of oppression or a tyranny of incompetence, the governing force is creating a reality that can only rationally be perceived as devolving the spectrum of intelligence so far from a semblance of acceptable reality that it's almost worse if it is a result of incompetence and not as a calculated attempt at overthrowing a freethinking body politic. At least that level of evil is comprehensible.

He will fit right in with Sheriff Grismore

Definitely go with a pellet stove to supplement the oil. Don’t replace the oil burner if it runs fine. At 5 dollars a bag it is cheaper to run than oil at 2.50 a gallon. Buy it by the pallet and it is even cheaper. No special venting needs other than the small pipe. Always nice to see a flame if you place the pellet stove in your living room or use an insert in existing open fireplace. Propane is just as expensive as oil if not more so and follows oil prices. Pellets can be sourced more locally like Maine and gives you an alternative option to lean on if oil/propane shoots up in price.

Hahaha great pic of him. Looks like he may have sniffed something out the evidence bag

Ehhhh, that's a bit of a stretch....I'm not going to agree they aren't funded because it's white Vermonters going there. That's a huge accusation.

We don't spend a lot of higher Ed because it's turned into a business rather than focusing on why it actually exists, which is to educate.

Admin bloat, unnecessary classes and positions that serve no purpose to educate, but offer positions to people. I also don't think state schools should turn a profit, they should break even, like a government service. But if say that, they also need support. Can't expect them to operate like a business without operating like a business.

I'm not defending anything. I'm saying your analogy is garbage. I don't like the fact that books are going away, but not liking something doesn't mean I don't understand it.

And you calling the library's physical copies being removed as tyranny is also crazy. It's not good, but it's not tyranny.

I'll just go ahead and assume you also think if someone doesn't agree with you that they are the basically the next Hitler.

Who knows maybe these VT colleges are tyrannical!

I've been fighting with them to check things. The pain has stayed consistent for over two weeks.

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And you act like we provide nothing! I spend well over 90 days a year in Vermont.

heat pumps are great but not everyone is comfortable with them yet. I don't understand why, but I'm not gonna try to convert you.

your best bet is likely a condensing gas boiler. you'd need LP tanks set outside or buried, but a properly sized propane boiler can convert 96-98% of the energy in a gallon of propane into heat for your hot water system. oil tops out in the mid 80s

call a reputable HVAC company and ask them for a "manual j" calculation for your home. this will cost a little money, but will look at all aspects of your home when sizing a boiler - insulation, windows, doors, solar exposure, etc. many HVAC companies will spit ball a boiler size of use the old school rules of thumb, then add to that so they don't get calls back from customers complaining about their house being cold

a properly sized boiler would have never shut off during the recent cold snap - that's not a bad thing as new boilers are most efficient when they have long run times. if fact, a properly sized boiler may have struggled to keep up with it was minus 20. you trade needing an extra blanket for 2 days cause the house is 65 instead of 68 for having more efficient operation the rest of the winter

efficiency VT call can you pointed in the right direction with an energy audit. they may even do the manual j calculation for you.

Yes on and off

this is an option, but will gain OP nothing regarding efficiency. their old oil burner is likely burning at 80%ish efficiency, and a new LP boiler will be about the same

200 Fuck that's heartbreaking. I had thought less if it's 200 now imagine how many others there are grrr. Only way I could support it now is if it was voluntary. The points you make thought are pretty spot on in regards to juries and general courtroom failures. Guys like this cop have the cash to afford David who will call this stuff out in real time while most of us get stuck with some poor PD with 200 cases who might run for prosecutor someday. Meanwhile the prosecution has just about unlimited resources. Got no answers really it's a pretty entrenched system favoring the state. This lawyer gets some bad guys off sure but I am of the old school belief that if a few get away and it keeps the police/courts in check for the vast majority of us then it's for the better.

You act like your taxes save us. THANK YOU!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

I’d rather see a happy family all year round, rather thank your ungrateful ass for 2 weeks.

Get air to air heat pumps, and leave your current boiler right where it is. You will only use it on the coldest days. As far as moving forward, heat pumps are absolutely the future. Mine can physically heat until -19°f and they are going on 4 years old now. I will run my propane boiler in the single digits because the cost is greater to run the heat pumps at those temps. Bonus: you get central air and shoulder season heating is extremely cheap.

EDIT: I just read what you said about needing to replace your current HVAC system for rebates, and I have never heard that before in VT. I would double check that with efficiency VT and GMP.

Tarm wood gasifyer boiler.

A friend of mine has one, works great.

Yeah it seems open system have been in the realm of diy for a long time in our area. The problems aren’t a result of open systems themselves but of unqualified design and install. That’s given them a bad rap.