Re: “Count on greater prices, extra closures as seasonal employee scarcity strains Maine eating places” (July 24):
As somebody who labored within the restaurant business for 39 years, I learn with curiosity the current article on how eating places are struggling. It’s scary as hell for small companies proper now. Each single day they’re confronted with rising prices of meals, insufficient staffing and a unending pandemic, simply to say a number of of the challenges that should be overcome to remain in enterprise.
Within the midst of all this chaos, we’re getting a proposal thrown at us that may let the federal government run our utilities. Actually?
As I perceive the proposal (which is the main focus of a 2023 referendum drive), we’re being requested if we wish to borrow billions of {dollars} from massive banks to pay for the property of the state’s two greatest utilities. On prime of that, we’d pay tens of tens of millions extra yearly to rent an organization to function these property. That’s as a result of politicians could be accountable for the entire package and caboodle, however they’d want professionals who perceive the electrical grid to advise them on learn how to maintain our lights on.
Right here’s an attention-grabbing twist, they might rent considered one of our present utilities to offer this experience. I imagine it’s laborious to beat professionals at their very own recreation – particularly one thing as advanced as our electrical utilities. For sure, I’m very skeptical.
Richard Grotton
Scarborough
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