Graham Platner, 41, Democratic US Senate Candidate from Maine on MSNBC Cable News — at the end of April 2026., He is Also a History Buff.
President Trump With a Drawing of his Ballroom – a Subject he Pivots to Rather than Talk About Issues Constituents are Interested in. Originally it was to be Paid for by Donors; Now Republicans including Senator L Graham, (R-SC) are calling to pay For it By Tax Payers. Susan Collins is on the fence about it! That’s Because Her Puppetmaster in the White House Has Not Instructed Her on How to Vote!
Today, Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for US Senate from Maine, released his “Take Back American Power” plan to lower energy costs for Maine families, break oil and gas billionaires stranglehold on American energy policy and rebuild the country’s energy infrastructure with good union jobs.
Maine households paid about $900. more this winter than last year just to heat their homes, keep the lights on and fill up the tank. That’s on top of energy costs that are already as much as $4,000 higher per year than the national average, while Trump’s illegal war in Iran is projected to drive up coss up another $1,400 to $2,500 annually.
“Mainers are working harder than ever and yet are still forced to choose between heating their homes or going to the doctor. That’s not an accident — it’s a choice Washington made,” said Graham Platner. “For decades, politicians like Susan Collins have handed our energy grid over to Big Oil Billionaires, Wall Street and foreign-owned utility companies, while promising us that our bills would come down. Instead, they’re getting richer while working people are footing the bill for higher costs and a crumbling energy system. I’s time we take back American power — by eliminating the gas tax, slashing energy costs, taxing Big Oil’s corporate windfall profits from Trump’s war and building a clean and affordable energy future provided by union jobs here at home.”
THE TAKE BACK AMERICAN POWER PLAN WOULD:
Slash prices by eliminating the federal gas and diesel taxes, imposing a windfall profits tax on Big Oil and freezing electricity rate increases nationwide.
Fund clean energy projects, not Pentagon waste through a National Energy Infrastructure Fund offering low-cost federal financing to utilities, rural electric co-ops, and public energy auhorities and use the Defense Production Act to build a strategy stockpile of domestically manufactured clean energy components.
Create a Strategic Marine Fuel Reserve to protect Maine’s fishing jobs and farmers from price spikes.
Launch a National Whole Home Repair Program to weatherize and electrify America’s aging housing stock.
“Where is MAGA member Susan Collins energy plan?” asks this blogger. “It’s right smack in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz.”