Thanks Biden
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I should be seeing these stickers every-fucking-where. And somehow I haven't seen any, or at least not lately. And yet, I saw that dumbasses put these up for Biden.

I already put these on every gas pump I use, which is none because I ride my bike, take the train, amd walk most places
i actually do put these up lol, they get ripped down pretty quickly unfortunately though.
One of the gas stations near me had clearly just given up on removing them and they were like 5 deep on each pump for quite a while. Then they all disappeared overnight so I'm guessing some MAGA assclown got pissy enough to either complain to corporate or remove them themselves.
Same. I save them for when I'm out in the suburbs, or ideally for rural areas when I'm on a road trip.
Where do you guys get yours? I'd like to buy them in bulk.
4.7 million Americans heat their homes with heating oil. Heating oil is essentially diesel (same fraction of distillation). Its going to be a cold and expensive winter for millions of Americans.
I was super lucky to replace my oil furnace with a heat pump a couple of years ago, before prices of heat pumps and oil skyrocketed. I used to pay $600-700 every three months in the winter just on heating oil (I had a very inefficient 1950's oil furnace in my poorly insulated 1940's home).
Now I have air conditioning and heating without spending hundreds of dollars. I wonder how much it would cost to fill the oil tank now.
I'm really happy you were able to make the jump! I'm really worried about a whole bunch of my distant neighbors this year. Prices continue to climb, wages (and employment) continue to fall. Its good to hear you dodged this particular bullet. Were you able to take advantage of any of the tax breaks or incentives from your utility provider to pay for part of your upgraded HVAC before the current administration yanked them?
I'm also very worried, as my neighborhood still has a lot of people using oil furnaces, primarily those on fixed incomes. Their situation is pretty dire, to put it lightly.
I was able to, yeah. It definitely helped me afford it. It's really sad that they got rid of it, basically ensuring that some people will be living in cold homes at some point this year. Those credits were good for everyone except for the oil companies: heat pumps help save on power bills (being one of the few > 100% efficient heating methods), they can reduce electrical grid stress if people move to heat pumps from resistive heating, and they help reduce pollution. It's just another way this administration and the oil companies are hurting everyone.
I was able to take advantage of the tax credit too to help pay for my heat pump. It allowed us to completely turn off natural gas service at our house which saves us hundreds of dollars a year for our situation.
The discontinuation of the tax credit for energy efficient homes is particularly bad because these type of programs typically gain more adoption the longer they go on as more people are made aware of them. There are likely people only today discovering these programs existed after they were discontinued by trump very early.
Heat pumps jumped in price? I just installed one myself for $450 all in (wiring, disconnext box, breaker, unit itself, concrete for the pad, etc.) for a 12k BTU unit in my living room.
Which one did you get? One of the Mr Cool ones?
I have a few. Two from Senville (Midea rebrand) and a third from Cozeware (AUX rebrand with Tuya controller).
This was the most recent one from Cozeware. Got it for $354 after tax for their 12k BTU unit.

Took about ~$100-150 for the lineset covers and other supplies.
Are you tired of winning yet?
Do you want to win more?
Please no more 'winning'... please.
Joking aside , some of my extended family still thinks the US is winning and that a lot of these 'pain points' are required to Larger-winning. I am not certain how to unpack the cope but the cope is strong.
Ah yes, just a pain point, you know, like being stabbed before dying. :P
Ohio most expensive
I use to drive from pgh to Ohio to up my tank because of how cheap they're usually. I paid half tank for my uhual, $30 bucks from Ohio
I just drove through a handful of states in the Midwest on a trip. I think I'm average it was around $6.20. the most I saw was $7.15, but that was at a podunk station off the beaten path that was more expensive across the board.
We saw one pump that a fellow filled up diesel and the total bill was $185 at $6.15. Insane costs.
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