Sucks for us. We deserve it.

The same strange dichotomy exists there as well. It’s likely the logging trucks are employed by Irving, pulling logs from Irving owned forests going to Canadian mills. Irving of course being a Canadian company. It really shows how intertwined we are with the Canadian economy and how stupid this trade war is…

Personally I saw this coming and invested in a smallish solar setup last fall. Hopefully build it out this summer to help deal with the energy shock. Also using oil to heat, which is refined in Canada, so long term need to get a heat pump and add more panels.

It will likely take awhile for this to have any effect. I know at least in my state (ME) the utility needs to give a 30 day notice of rate hike and then that needs to then go to committee within public utility commission, who will basically arbitrate the request for increase.

Consequently, my supplier of electricity is a wholly owned Canadian company…so they’d actually be paying the increase until a rate hike was approved. Also, would a punitive rate hike even be approved?

They have enough trouble getting a 1% rate hike though for building infrastructure.

Edit: Although I’m not up to speed on if the affected states have set rates or variable rates.

What if we built a system of beacon transmitters that sent out pulses and then used recievers that would compare arrival times of those pulses to make a measurement, thus establishing positional location?

We could call it the Long Range something or other. I’m open to suggestions. Need a catchy name!

I joined the Starlink beta as soon as it was offered in my area, only having access to spotty 4G previously. My census block ended up being awarded to Starlink via the infrastructure act. Thankfully there was a rule change and they removed that contract money from Starlink and awarded it to two different fiber providers.

Work got started last fall…

I now have redundant dual fiber connections going into my house, a 2.5GB/2.5GB and a 1GB/1GB backup. With the first year pricing it costs about the same as Starlink. This is in the middle of nowhere, rural America. I’m told that there is tons of capacity too and they’ll be able to increase the speeds of those offerings in the future, as the price for the technology comes down.

It has changed the entire calculus for living and working in this area and becomes a lot more attractive for remote work.

Sucks for all the people that could possibly have amazing internet getting screwed over by this grift. Starlink is a great bandaid, but not a long term solution.

Also pro democracy US citizen.

I live in the only part of the lower 48 that is not directly connected to the American electric grid. Northern Maine gets 100% of its power routed through Canada, with the majority coming from Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station in New Brunswick.

If Canada stopped providing electricity, there will be 70,000 people without power in the middle of winter with no recourse.

A majority of my neighbors voted for Trump. FAFO.