Why are you paying 400/cord? I just had a cord of seasoned delivered last week for 225 and that is pretty standard around here (Tolland County). Is this Fairfield that you’re talking about?

OK. That makes sense to me. So they already have purchased the electricity, in a manner of speaking, at a price lower than what they want to charge me. In that case, it seems like a no-brainer to sign up for it until eversource lowers their kilowatt hour px. Thank

I get it. But in this case, the third-party has to buy the energy from eversource at a higher rate than what they are charging to the customer (i.e. me). So how are they making up for that loss? If electricity costs $.24 per kilowatt hour from eversource and the third-party is only taking $.17 from the customer, how does that work? The only thing that makes sense to me is what another poster put here, which is that they are hoping that the price that eversource charges will drop below the $.17 and customers will be too lazy or forgetful to change their supplier when the time comes. That seems like such a strange gamble, as it depends upon the rather unpredictable irrationality of the customers. But it’s the only explanation that makes any real sense to me.

Whoever pays for the work decides what work gets done. Science, as a set of disciplinary practices of people, happens to the extent that other people wish to direct resources toward it. Those other people’s desires and goals are determined by historical forces. Thus, science is driven by historical forces, even if its outcomes may unfold quite independent of historical forces (of course, and not wishing to muddy that main point, things like climate science show that historical forces are very much entangled with experimental data, too).

Science is absolutely dictated by the prevailing ideological currents of each era, far more so than History by virtue of the more considerable resources its earnest pursuit requires. There are countless scientific projects that could be pursued at any given moment, but they are not because political ideologies dictate those that are and those that are not given financial and institutional support. Science is in fact uniquely ill equipped to handle its own ideological embeddedness - largely because of fantasies of neutrality and objectivity displayed in your post. If you think that science is or ever has been pursued free from its historical moment, free from the politics of the moment, you ought to read some history.

“Town built a small bridge in Whitneyville, Connecticut, to introduce his design.”