There are multiple places in your account you can see your usage, rather than pull up a bill, bring up one of those charts in your account?

like /u/zgrizz stated, I've never had a problem looking at my account/pulling a bill off the website. Do you have some kind of pop-up blocker that may be preventing the pdf of the bill from downloading?

If that's your experience with the cheap wooden ones.

Just grab a couple of these and give them a shot. Walk into any home improvement store and they likely have them and they are only like $6.

It's a very clean kill, I've never had to worry about cleaning up blood or guts from the floor.

You can reuse traps you know.

Unless you are somehow killing hundreds of mice, how are you going through a big box?

I live in the woods too and just use these:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/TOMCAT-Press-N-Set-Mouse-Trap-0360710PM/205563821

They say disposable, but they can easily be reset. Each trap has killed dozens of mice.

But that's not what they are saying.

If the laws were enforced here, the shooter would not have had a gun.

We're only the 5th most densely populated state if you include D.C.

So actually we're fourth....and that blurb is stupid the fact that we're small makes it easier to become densely populated.

Then back to 50 on Sunday

That's the UK, they are far more densely populated that we are. I'm a huge fan of wood heat (just installed an outdoor wood boiler). Burning wood makes a lot of sense in more rural areas. But if everyone in a densely populated town/city got wood stoves it would certainly get smoggy.

That's always the dream.

Maybe, someday we'll get Wind power off of Cape Cod, or in the Long Island sound.

But that's going to be up to the government doing something or somehow people stop being NIMBYs

You can do the math out if you're curious.

EVs tend to get between 3 and 4 miles per KWh. Just figure out how many miles you drive, or something drives, and do the math out.

Aluminum is the best, plastic containers need to go away and just use cans. Easy to recycle. If i buy something, I try my best to buy it out of an aluminum can if at all.

As far as cardboard/paper goes. I heat the house with wood. All Cardboard/paper just gets thrown into the stove (save it in the basement during the summer)

Also, as far as garbage pickup, was there not a private company that could be contracted out for that area?

Back when i lived in Marlborough, the town didn't have trash/recycling either. But there was a private company that would do it (i just brought my stuff to the transfer station)

The best one I went to, i believe, was in South Windsor.

I think there's on in Vernon, that one wasn't to bad either.

I used to live in Hartford county, there are a couple north of Hartford up the river.

If people cared about recycling there wouldn't be shit all of the side of the road. At least with a deposit it means, at the very least, cans are picked up off the road and returned.

I just wish they'd make it a deposit on nips instead of a flat tax. That's the current plague of trash all over roadways.

If you don't want the state to collect your revenue, just donate the cans. Just look around you probably have boy scouts, school sports, an animal shelter, something that is running a can drive trying to raise money.

I used to fill 55 gallon bags. I could get three of them to fit in my car, would pull like $60.

Of course, that was back when i used to work in an office and it was like 10 minutes from there so i would just go on lunch break or something.

Who doesn't have recycling pick up? You just don't put the cans in there.

If you don't want to go to a store to return the cans one at a time, look up redemption centers, they have large counters you can just dump a bag into.

Don't know what part of the state you're in. But I would save my cans until I had a bunch then go to an actual redemption center. Dump them in a counter and be out in like 5 min.

Don't bother with going to a grocery store or whatever where you have to hand feed the cans

delivery fee is based on usage, just fyi

Anyone that doesn't plan on moving anytime soon should be putting panels on their roof (buy don't lease!)

They will certainly pay for themselves at these rates

> I am completely against nationalizing/government takeover of utilities, BUT if Eversource is not generating any electrcity, why should we be hostage to their rates? Eversource, as the gas and water company, are laying miles of new supply lines which are very costly, and would account for the "delivery" aspects of our bills. > > These are outrageous rates, and unfortunately we are powerless to do anything about it as our corrupt politicians are in their pockets. Fuck Eversource.

0% of this rate increase is going to Eversource, as the other poster that responded to you mentioned. This increase is 100% on the supply side.

Highest demand isn't at night, it's still during the day.

And any extra solar produced that could help turn down gas power plants means pipelines can get a "break" during the day and help fill up storage rather than everything being used.

It is in fact true.

As far as Constellation (that's the name you're forgetting) they might be losing money on this 13 cents per KWh for the next few months, but they also have you in at a 3 year contract, perhaps down the line they will turn a profit.

Constellation might also have a cheaper way to produce power (i believe they are based out of texas, so they could be getting higher priority on the pipeline)

I wish the increase was that low in MA. National Grid went from 0.11 to 0.32 on 11/1

Wow, I was giving you the benefit of doubt that you were talking about particulates, not CO2.

Wood, and I was originally speaking of wood stoves, (although pellets are still better than coal) is CO2 neutral. Trees grow, die, decompose, new trees grow.

Where fossil fuels are carbon emitters, so sure if you only measure the burn, and ignore everything in the supply chain, wood is worse, but you have to ignore everything prior it getting to your house.

It won't be large scale, as people in dense suburbs and cities won't be burning wood, but rural people and less dense suburbs can be part of the solution.

Anybody that lives "in the woods" on about 1.5 acres or more will likely have enough dead trees to heat thier house for years.

That and power companies and other home owners take down dead/dying trees and either leave it to rot or someone can go grab it for free.