Washington Post Board Blasts Platner’s 4-Year Rate Freeze as Maine Race Sharpens

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 16

The Washington Post editorial board said Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is offering “fantastical solutions,” centering its critique on his newly unveiled energy platform.
Platner’s “Take Back American Power” plan calls for a four-year electricity rate freeze, a windfall tax on big oil profits and an end to federal gas-tax collection to cut consumer costs.
The board argued those price caps would discourage new energy production, risk shortages and shift more control to Washington through the Defense Production Act and federally backed energy loans.
Citing Texas, it said an “all-of-the-above” approach and easier building—not deregulation-resistant intervention—has produced lower power costs, with Texans paying less than half California rates per kilowatt hour.
The broadside adds to pressure on Platner in his challenge to Republican Sen. Susan Collins, after other Democrats including Sen. John Fetterman also criticized his far-left politics.

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