Campaign message 5:

Maine, like all other states, is an economic unit. 

This is not well understood, so I will do my best

 to help us appreciate the consequences 

of resource flow in and out of the state. 

For example, we buy 9 billion kilowatt hours 

of electricity each year through CMP. 

For this, we send $115,500,000 to POB 11752 

in Newark New Jersey each month. 

Obviously, we need the electricity 

and maybe this is even the best price we can get. 

What we don’t have a good sense of 

is the total resource flow in and the total out. 

Just like a check book, this is important 

as an indicator of our economic health 

as a well as a gauge of where and how 

we might do better. 

This is not that difficult to develop 

and once in hand, we will have a better sense 

of the true costs of this or that policy.