Correct, the state doesn't require you to have insurance to drive here. It's foolish not to, but not illegal. HOWEVER, your lender likely does require it if you have a loan on your vehicle. And if you cross in to VT/MA "But NH doesn't require it" doesn't fly, they'll still ticket you for driving in their state without insurance.

It would be an incredibly long term investment- you're not going to see an ROI for likely 20+ years. But it would pay for itself long term. And in the mean time it would provide residents with far more reliable service.

> I understand when a vendor passes along the costs of using a credit card and don't really have a problem with that.

I don't, it's the cost of doing business. If you don't want to accept cards, you don't have to. But you will have an unhappy customer base as a result.

Liberty does offer this- he's griping that this is the only free option. I see his point, you shouldn't charge me extra for paying you.

> It’s not lost on me all the ones rallying for these racists “rights” are right wingers.

Feel free to review my post history- literally the only thing I align with the right on is the 2nd amendment- everything else I'm somewhere in the ballpark of Bernie.

Again- separate the message from the act. The act has to be illegal, and if it is, it should be illegal for everyone, not just the people who you agree with. A message in and of itself should not be illegal, nor should the message be the determining factor if an otherwise legal act suddenly becomes illegal.

He's not unreasonable- separating the scumbag from the act is important. He brings up a lot of valid points that this is a dangerous precedent to set.

If the sign said make new england diverse, or some other message that we might agree with, would you still expect them to be charged? I wouldn't, and I firmly believe the law should apply to all acts equally, regardless of message. I find these guys detestable. But if we wouldn't charge someone with a message encouraging diversity, we shouldn't charge someone for a message discouraging it. It crosses into a first amendment issue that I'm not ok crossing into personally.

> Also, who did you mean when you said, "Vermin Supreme"?

in case his other answer wasn't clarifying enough- He's not responding derogatory to someone he dislikes- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme he's legitmately known as vermin supreme.

I thought about that, but I also was thinking of the fact that the boston area has far better shopping options. But you're right. If you could take an hour ride on a train on a day off, you could save a bundle on taxes.

I drive all the way from the upper valley, I would love to only have to drive to Manch and just catch a train.

> These would be newer and cleaner and full of middle class workers and professionals.

I fit that bill. I still would prefer to drive myself. Maybe I'm just jaded because of my prior experience on buses, or maybe it's just that I hate being in close proximity to other people. Even commuter trains give you SOME room to stretch your legs, stand up and walk around that busses simply don't.

But that only works if you reduce the number of people driving, otherwise you're adding to the traffic problem. Maybe it's just me but I feel like there's a stigma associated with riding a bus that isn't there for taking a train- so for convincing people to take public transport, I think a train will get better adoption than busses. I could very well be wrong, this is just my personal bias- If it was convienient to my workplace, i'd take a train every day. I don't care if the bus is coming to my office door I would drive my own car before taking the bus.

89 too please! I'd love to have a train from Lebanon to MHT.

>Fleets of electric buses are presently far more feasible and affordable.

Isn't that just in the short term though? From my understanding the real savings from rail is long term, as there's far less maintenance required on a passenger car for a train than there is for any highway vehicle. Not to mention we already have bus service to boston from as far away as Concord. I don't know about you, but I despise taking the concord coach. Bout the only time I do it is if I'm flying out. It's not practical as it is now for going to a bruins game, catching a concert, etc.

Right? At most my wife and I will do a day trip to boston. We'll leave after breakfast, home around dinner. Parking is a PITA and expensive, driving around Boston is a clusterfuck. If I could take a train right into downtown, instead of driving down, catching a bruins game, and driving home, we'd make a weekend of it, take the train in, shop around, hit up the bars, stay in a hotel, and take the train back the next day.

Not to mention there's perks coming the OTHER way too- flying out of MHT is a lot cheaper than BOS sometimes, so being able to just hop a train up to manch and fly out from there would make people far more likely to consider it as an option. That draws more people in, more money brought into the local economy.

I would love this. I live in NH not far from WRJ, I would 1000% take a train to boston far more often than I drive. Bonus points if it goes right to south station. Trips to fenway, Microcenter, dinner, etc would be far more doable if we could ride down, do our shopping, catch a ball game, and then ride home without having to drive.

> Or pay for it yourself.

That's exactly what I'm suggesting, I pay for my portion, you pay for yours, and by everyone pitching in and paying a small portion of it, we all get more reliable power.

I grew up in fucking Alaska, they even figured this shit out. It's assholes like you digging your feet in holding everyone back.

Ok boomer. How does it feel knowing that you, and people like you, are actively making the world a worse place?

> If it's that much of a problem, get a generator.

What a solution! Instead of everyone paying a few extra dollars on their light bill and improving things for everyone, people should go out and spend $10k+ on a standby generator! Or $1k and only power a few items.

In 5 years in this particular house we've lost power at least a couple days every winter, it has consistently been local lines down due to trees or weather.

This was in regards to poles and local service, the long distance HV Transmission isn't commonly buried AFAIK.

And would your lifestyle be dramatically different if they raised them .12 instead of .11?

Until the next storm and then we re hang them. Those will last until the next storm. And so on

> But then the cable/phone/internet and in some cases fire alarm are all hanging on the existing poles.

They solved this problem elsewhere... they buried those too, and is also a great way to defray the costs so it's not 100% on the electric company. Maybe ask ATT/comcast to dip into their portion of the $1,000,000,000,000 (yes, 1 TRILLION DOLLARS) that has been given to internet providers to increase broadband availability that never got used appropriately to cover some of the cost?

> Doubt a lot of people would want their yards ripped up just to get the electricity that they already get.

I dunno, a simple "Hey we're going to tear it up, put it back as best we can, but at the end of it you'll have power that will never go down due to weather" I bet the vast majority would be on board.