Letters: Authorities-controlled electrical energy would make issues worse; That is Putin’s battle

Authorities-controlled electrical energy would make issues worse

Rep. Seth Berry and a variety of supporters, like Ethan Strimling, are pushing a referendum drive making a politically elected board to offer many of the electrical energy within the state. Though CMP has not had the most effective of years, if you wish to make issues considerably worse, signal the petition for government-controlled energy.

The takeover could be carried out by invoking the state’s eminent area energy which might require Maine taxpayers to pony up the honest market worth for CMP and Versant (previous Bangor Hydro). The estimate for that’s $13.5 billion (with a B). Authorized prices and yearly upkeep would elevate that quantity considerably.

In 1973 the state held an analogous referendum on public energy. Maine voters correctly defeated it by nearly 23 factors, 61.3% to 39.7%. Let’s not even go there. Don’t signal the petition.

Joe Mackey,
South Portland

That is Putin’s battle

There are occasions when feedback are made which might be simply baffling and past comprehension. Such was the case in a letter to the editor in The Instances Report on Friday, March 18, titled “Our inept response to Ukraine.”

One of many questions raised was “if America didn’t enter World Struggle II….would all of Europe now be managed by a dictator? Would extra or fewer minorities have been killed?” Making an attempt to parse that touch upon any stage is baffling. What does that even imply?

It was additionally said that President Biden has allowed the homicide of ladies and kids in Ukraine. Nowhere is the title Putin talked about, or Trump who was the most effective apologist for and champion of Putin’s maniacal despotism.

Lastly, the commentary ended by saying “And what about these males who fought in World Struggle II? My guess is they’re all in Heaven, watching our inept response to Ukraine with tears flowing.” I’d ask how those self same males (and ladies) would really feel about Bush’s failed 20-year battle in Afghanistan and the “no WMD” battle in Iraq? How would they really feel about Trump’s holding up army assist to a besieged Ukraine with a blackmail try on the Ukraine president, and Trump’s tried overthrow of our Democracy that these WW II troopers gave their lives to protect?

The actual fact is that that is Putin’s battle and the lives which might be being misplaced are his murders. President Biden, fortunately, has allies which have a say in how this battle is responded to. They stay proper subsequent door to this battle which we’re solely an ICBM or extra away from. Additionally they suffered straight by WW II. Trump has just lately known as Putin a “genius”. Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Information and Tucker Carlson are the most effective propaganda weapons of assist that Putin has to justify his mass homicide. That is the present actuality.

Jeffrey Runyon,
Brunswick

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