BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 13, 2022
Subsidizing oil company profits with taxpayer money essentially means we, as taxpayers, pay for our heating oil twice. Mega-mergers and crony capitalism have created monolithic entities that are, if not invulnerable, at the very least formidable. What do we elect lawmakers for if they can’t tackle the difficult problems? I, like many of my friends and neighbors, spent freely of our time, shoe leather and gasoline knocking on doors to get out the vote. Now, we need action from the lawmakers we sent to Augusta and Washington. Limit the fleecing of America and demand public responsibility from corporations. ~ Lucian Laurie, Boothbay