LePage says two companies may close over high energy costs, erasing 400 jobs

[TexasTowelie]

Two Maine companies employing about 400 people may be poised to close their doors because of high energy costs, Maine Gov. Paul LePage said during a radio interview Thursday.

“I’m not going to give you the names because we are just starting the conversation, but yesterday we got two calls,” LePage said. “We are talking roughly 400 people who may lose their jobs because of closures.”

LePage said the companies involved are concerned about a recent voter-approved increase to the minimum wage and high state income taxes, but mostly overwhelming energy costs.

“One company told us their energy bill is going up $125,000 and they simply can’t sustain it,” the Republican governor said in a conversation with WGAN radio talk show hosts Matt Gagnon and Ken Altshuler.

Read more: http://www.pressherald.com/2017/01/05/lepage-says-2-companies-400-jobs-poised-to-leave-maine/

[Initech]

1. GOP runs on promising jobs only to erase them.

[democratisphere]

2. Someone needs to tell the GOP that they are not miracle workers.

The extremely high cost of running a business in the USA has no easy answers or solutions.

[BREMPRO]

3. sounds like a convenient lame ass excuse for not being able to create or keep jobs in the state.

This embarrassing excuse for a governor has done nothing to help create jobs or address those energy costs he is now using as an excuse for losing them. Soo, LeJerk, why didn't you invest in alternative energy instead of dismissing and fighting it? Why didn't you invest in Solar, tidal, wave, wind which are huge untapped natural clean energy resources that could put Maine on the cutting edge of energy generation technology and create favorable conditions for jobs that require energy???????????? Cuz you don't have a clue.. just following the radical right playbook without knowing what you are doing,. and using the same playbook for excuses. Resign already. The State needs leadership not incompetent bombastic Trumpsters.

[Soxfan58]

4. What a bullshit artist

He said the same thing last spring, that a company employing 400 would leave last summer. He's pushing a new budget, with of course large tax cuts for the rich. And Maine just passed a minimum wage increase, which he opposed. So in typical repub fashion he Bullshits