MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • February 4, 2024
It would be nice if Maine would revisit the plastic bag ban. Why can’t the Legislature review these mandates and make changes based on fact-finding? There seems to be little interest in making Mainers’ lives easier. Instead, the Legislature is plowing ahead with more controls with plans to restrict gas-powered vehicles (even though EV battery mining is environmentally destructive and EVs don’t work well in cold weather.) There are also plans to restrict gas appliances, gas furnaces and gas supply to the state. Freedom is slowly but steadily being replaced by tyrannical rule; the end result of such rule is usually abject poverty, as totalitarian societies have demonstrated across history. ~ Timothy Michalak, Cumberland