MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • August 15, 2021
Look around you, pretty much everything in your home and workplace was brought to you by medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Trucks are the lifeblood of the economy. Maine has an ambitious goal of going from 5,000 light-duty electric vehicles on Maine roads today to 219,000 light duty EVs by 2030. There are more than 50 light-duty EV models you can buy right now, but good luck finding an EV truck. If the average truck lasts 15 years and everyone can’t buy an EV tomorrow, then to ignore the proven benefits of biofuels is just not taking climate action seriously. ~ Irv Smith, Eddington