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13 October
5:15 pm

Maine spent four point five billion dollars out of this state every year, thirty three hundred dollars per person to bring energy to Maine

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Rick Bennett, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (WGME)

5:15 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figures ($4.5 billion total and $3,300 per person annually) for energy spending leaving Maine are concrete and verifiable against energy consumption and economic data
What we foundThe $4.5 billion total figure is supported by multiple credible sources, but it specifically refers to imported fossil fuels, not all energy broadly; the $3,300 per-person figure is arithmetically consistent with that total but is not independently cited by any authoritative source.
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