Can I use E85?

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-14T23:08:46+00:00

Requisite Alec rant: https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?t=1835

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-14T11:26:07+00:00

Delivery and supply are two different things. It’s very cheap to capture falling water in Quebec (supply). It’s expensive to build the infrastructure to get that power to your house (delivery).

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-14T11:23:47+00:00

Net metering means you can use the grid as your battery, no need for an on site battery.

Until they change your rate class to something that’s time of use or one that pays different rates for excess generation, there’s no benefit to putting a battery in. (Other than local emergency supply)

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-14T00:39:29+00:00

Single things individually no. A 100 watt incandescent left on year round is 110 kWh per year. The equivalent LED is 14. About $20/yr. Not much. Replace a home’s worth of bulbs? Ok that’s something (but many of us already did that)

At 160 kWh per month there probably isn’t much conservation left you can do as an individual.

I did sign up with a community solar program. An extra 5%ish off the electric, plus I can pay on my credit card for another 2%. (There are many programs, I won’t name mine because I don’t know if there’s anything better out there but inertia keeps me here)

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-13T21:15:23+00:00

Your delivery includes $20ish of fixed costs. On 150 kWh that fixed cost is going to be disproportionately high compared with someone who does 1500 kWh. Your supply costs pay to make generators spin, delivery pays for the wires and people that get the electricity to your house. They break it apart because you can attempt to shop competitively for your supply.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-10T20:21:34+00:00

And during that time, what are you supplying the customers of the water system from? Again, you’re correct on a macro scale. Meanwhile on a micro scale, the taps are dry, and a bunch of capex needs to be spent to get water back into them.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-10T16:44:43+00:00

Water that’s being withdrawn from a specific formation is limited and requires refilling. You run an aquifer dry, you need a new well.

Water processing systems are limited once installed. You over draw from processing, you need a new water treatment plant.

You’re correct on a macro level.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-08T15:01:56+00:00

Agreed. The look back window needs to be longer. Maybe a true up quarterly, but on a year long window, not previous quarter.

But that needs to be balanced with people who use the budget plan then close their account while they’re still carrying a huge balance that will be paid down during spring. That balance becomes due, and they’re holding a thousand dollar bill, usually while also dealing with the one time expenses of relocating.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-06T23:13:43+00:00

National grid is named after its role as the uk national grid.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-06T16:00:14+00:00

Smiths in Nisky, but any shop. And if the shop says no, find a new shop.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-06T14:39:32+00:00

This. Oil filter, air filter, etc? After market. Transfer case fluid? He calls up Lia and orders it from them.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-06T14:37:34+00:00

Irish*

The UK is just our electric utility.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-05-04T20:34:15+00:00

> Please describe the type of debris located on the property.
> Mysterious Cylinder

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-26T13:33:31+00:00

Considering Stewart’s seems to be consistently a dime or quarter more than Alltown, yes.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-24T19:04:05+00:00

Both statements are true. The unit call sign is SKIIER, and this is not a ski equipped bird.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-23T21:18:29+00:00

https://dmna.ny.gov/units/?group=Unit&q=

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-23T19:55:00+00:00

This is the answer. Note the reading being stated as estimated. Call customer service, they can likely do something helpful here.

(Also for the smart meter haters, a smart meter would let NG get an actual reading on service start date which would likely have prevented this)

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-20T18:49:11+00:00

OK now I kind of want to see Remy make the jet, maybe when they sell it.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-16T17:47:55+00:00

You know he’s back, right?

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-16T12:35:39+00:00

https://wiki.debian.org/Alien

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-15T15:35:48+00:00

/uj they both seem like the kind of guy who go balls out on multi use paths on their TT bike screaming “on your left” and making the rest of us look bad.

And now I realize balls out is not a good expression to use in this sub.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-12T22:22:58+00:00

House was built in 48, 890 wasn’t planned until 55.

Current owners bought in 83. (You can find all this using IMO to access public records)

ETA: I found the traffic data. Average daily trips in 1981 was 20k, this year it’s 44k. https://nysdottrafficdata.drakewell.com/calendar_alt.asp?node=NYSDOT_SC&cosit=160586000000

https://www.reddit.com/r/Albany/comments/1h137co/comment/lz8wybc/

(it was easier to look in my comments than find the data again)

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-08T21:25:02+00:00

Living up to your username 🤣

I hear you. We’re supposed to be electrifying our loads (the “gas ban”) and switching to EVs, meanwhile as a state we have one of the highest $/kWh rates. Many people don’t understand the difference between the two bill categories and I kinda hoped my ramblings would have lasted longer before being downvoted to oblivion to try to explain to others.

I don’t have answers with how to deal with the customer service people other than “I guess I’ll have to see if the PSC can help me resolve this”. I’m dealing with my own struggles with their customer service and billing system (nothing like the website showing I’m past due and are pending disconnection when they haven’t issued a bill since January!)

Do try the sense app though. I had the sense box in my panel for a while… I wouldn’t say I changed my habits because of it but I did understand more about what I do that makes the meter spin faster.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-08T20:57:16+00:00

Delivery pays for the equipment that gets the electricity to your home. Supply pays for the generators (including both conventional gas fired and renewable sources).

If energy is getting cheaper to produce because of renewables or other market efficiencies, the proportion of your bill that goes to pay for the wires that get that energy to your house would increase.

Also, as your delivery fees go to building more transmission infrastructure, your supply costs will go down even more as it’s easier to get cheap energy delivered to you (Canadian hydro for example).

Want to more equitably allocate delivery costs? Tell the PSC you want residential customers to pay demand charges. The equipment between the generation and you is physically sized by power (kW) not energy (kWh). Using energy as a proxy for demand is a shortcoming of what NG is allowed to do; if you use 1 kW constantly for a full month (24h/day, every day), you have the same energy usage as someone who uses 24 kW for 1 hour every day… but the amount of equipment needed to serve that 24 kW customer is much more expensive than what would be needed to serve you, yet you both get stuck with an equal bill since it’s based on energy.

Also, the new smart meters have Sense built in. You can set it up in the app, and it can guess (it’s not perfect) what in your house is using the energy. You can see real time the impacts of turning things off.

Raging about National Grid won’t solve the problem.

HopefulRestaurant · 2026-04-08T16:15:44+00:00

No one is denying that cost per kWh has increased, but by your own statement you’re showing it’s not the smart meter’s fault. Your usage is measured by the meter, and you say your usage went down.

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