To the Editor:
I have read a lot of post election analysis over the last two weeks. Many pundits who clearly haven’t liked Governor LePage over the last four years have written pieces that express befuddlement as to how he got re-elected. There is one fact which has gotten very little attention and that is that our current governor got the highest vote total for that office in Maine history (291,937).
It’s my opinion that Governor LePage has a mandate to go forward with the issues that he campaigned on. One of the big ones has to do with energy costs. Our electric rates are going to increase in January. This adversely affects people who are on fixed incomes and every business in this state.
It appears clear to me that conservation alone is not going to change this situation, and throwing more money at solar or wind generation isn’t going to help it either.
I encourage our elected representatives to put away the election year rhetoric, and work with our popular governor as he seeks real world solutions to Maine’s current energy crisis.
