Sara Gideon is once again trying to push a gas tax that could raise gas, heating oil and other fuels by roughly 40 cents a gallon! Read more from Team Collins below.
Gideon’s Real Climate Change Plan: Raise Taxes on Hardworking Mainers
Gideon Supports Gas Tax Hike That’ll Hurt Working Families, Farmers, & Seniors
Hypocrisy Alert: Gideon Also Has Long Track Record of Donations from Fossil Fuel Interests
Members of the press:
Sara Gideon released her "climate agenda" today. Here’s what she’s not telling you.
Gideon’s climate change agenda includes a gas tax. Gideon supports a plan to hike taxes on gas, home heating oil, and other fuel products in Maine by roughly 40 cents a gallon.
Gideon has benefited heavily from fossil fuel interests, including oil pipeline companies and fossil fuel billionaires like Donald Sussman, Tom
Steyer, and Michael Zilka.
Gideon doesn’t address how she’s going to pay for her plan.
Gideon’s devastating gas and heating oil tax would especially affect working families and seniors - the people who can least afford Gideon’s new tax.
The gas tax bill that Gideon supports, LD 434, "An Act to Price Carbon Pollution in Maine," would have slapped a new fee on fuel distributors in Maine. It would have affected fuel products from gasoline to diesel to home heating oil. Gideon cosponsored andspoke at a press conference in support of the bill.
The money taken from Mainers by Gideon's new tax would not have been used to fix and improve Maine’s crumbling infrastructure. Instead, it would have gone to a brand new fund administered by the Maine Public Utilities Commission and distributed to Central Maine Power and other utilities.
Gideon has taken donations from oil pipeline companies like Enbridge, raised money at the Houston mansion of fossil fuel billionaire Michael Zilka, and is benefiting from millions of dollars of political support from Donald Sussman and Tom Steyer, two billionaires who
made their fortune in fossil fuels.
