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So you think the cause of electric bill tripling over the next five years due to Obama shutting down the coal fired generators is driven by the oil companies?
Might want to read my initial post first before commenting. You'll find it above.
Portland pays very well compared to its cost of living due to the much larger percentage of professional jobs here. My property taxes are around $2500/yr which is less than they'd be in Auburn, Lewiston, Brunswick, and probably many other communities.
Ouch !
You could have a house sitting on 1,500+ acres of land and pay the same level of taxes.
I do not know what [if anything] oil companies are lobbying for. There is a corporation here that wants to build an oil-fired power plant on land adjacent to our land. There is one already not too far away that uses the heat of the oil-fire to burn wet cardboard and plastics. They call it waste-to-energy. Supposedly around 5% of the energy making electricity comes from Municipal Waste. Most of the energy comes from oil of course.
The group trying to build the power plant next to us, wants to site the plant on the E/W corridor path, to give them a future option of burning Tar Sand petroleum. Along with Quebec Municipal Waste.
I attended one of their informational public presentations last night.
They do a lot to draw focus away from it being an oil-fired power plant, instead the focus is on reducing Municipal Waste, and burying it [toxic ash buried in a peat bog, to leach into the Penobscot River].
At the meeting last night I was surprised to see a few town managers there in favor of the project. One was from Bradley which is located downstream of where the landfill would be. Bradley's trash would be burned and buried up-stream of Bradley, so the toxins they generate will go directly back into Bradley's water.
As Bradley's representative said last night, so long as it lowers their tipping fees, they don't care. They want their taxes to drop.
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