In response to the Dec. 31 letter, “Maine’s vote on utilities looks worse than ever, do the writer and other Pine Tree Power backers really think that things would have been different with a consumer-owned utility? How would Pine Tree Power have prevented all the trees from falling and snapping power lines during a hurricane force wind and rain storm? I think I have figured out how they would have accomplished this.
Prior to the storm at their headquarters, they would have pushed a button and an invisible shield would have sprung up and covered the whole state of Maine until the storm passed over, thus preventing the massive power outages that occurred. If the shield wasn’t available due to the cost, then after the storm passed they would have come out and waved a magic wand and all the trees would stand back up and our power would be restored.
As silly as this sounds, so is the idea that having a consumer-owned utility would prevent power outages or get our power restored quicker after a storm and at the same time lower our electricity costs.
We live in a state covered by trees. Trees are going to fall. Power is going to go out. Think about the people right now in the Middle East and Ukraine and what they are going through. Three to five days without power? Not a big deal.
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Donald Fournier
Waterville
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