ElisabetSobeckPhD

ElisabetSobeckPhD t1_j5v175e wrote

Personally no, but just saying "raise rates $0.01/kwh and bury the lines" is likely a vast oversimplification. Retrofitting buried electric across the state is a monumental task, when you consider the geography combined with a bunch of people who don't want people interfering with their property. Also consider the huge amount of people that were struggling to afford living here, even before the rate hikes.

I read this article from 2009 that makes it seem fairly unpalatable.

>A rough price tag puts the cost at $17 billion or more. To put that in perspective, cleaning up from the ice storm cost the utilities about $80 million, enough to bury about 100 miles of line. It would take the cost of the damage from 90 similar ice storms to pay for burying half of the state's power lines.

>"It does become more economical to hope for the best and clean up the mess," said Seth Wheeler of New Hampshire Electric Co-op.

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ElisabetSobeckPhD t1_j5f20gl wrote

it's irrelevant. how can it possibly be about safety when we don't even require seatbelts. it probably made sense in 1931 when it was enacted, but nowadays it's basically a scam.

the time and money spent on enforcing vehicle inspections would be better spent educating people on distracted/drunk driving.

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ElisabetSobeckPhD t1_j12h6wa wrote

mildly interesting, but realistically either people don't care because they live somewhere warm, or you're gonna get flooded by people from Minneapolis and Fargo that talk about how 30F is shorts weather.

>While his house is cold, Chevalier warms up at work, stores or local restaurants.

yeah if you're actually cold and doing other stuff to stay warm, you probably didn't save any money in the end.

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ElisabetSobeckPhD t1_j11eg93 wrote

apartments are lasting longer and longer these days. it was cutthroat just a few months ago.

you should be able to find one pretty fast. the mill buildings in Manchester have multiple apartments available right now for less than $2000.

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ElisabetSobeckPhD t1_iy9y30n wrote

I think the biggest factor is there's a very low population relative to other states, which means the percentage of cars with vanity plates is higher. Like there's probably 1000s of people that wanted to get a license plate that says "TESLA" in california, but only 1 person gets it.

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