how many times have we heard from big business that competition is the key to sucess?level the playing field etc. well natural gas is here in Maine but to reach the home owner it is being slowed down?why?
Natural gas line expands to Freeport, thanks to big customer
Extending gas networks often relies on major users -- such as L.L. Bean -- which can help justify the investment.
By Tux Turkel ttu...rkel@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer

Chip Gray said he wanted to take a shovel and dig. Gray, whose family owns the Harraseeket Inn, was aware that the new natural gas line buried along Main Street in downtown Freeport now stops at the L.L. Bean retail store -- within sight of the inn's entrance.

Gray burns 50,000 gallons of fuel oil per year at the 94-room inn. At today's energy prices, he figures natural gas could cut his heat and hot water bills by 30 percent.

"Natural gas is a big bonus," he said. "We've been missing out on that."

After months of planning and construction, Maine Natural Gas began pumping fuel underground to Freeport on Friday, in the company's first expansion into a new community in nearly a decade. Several businesses, town-owned properties including the high school, and a few homes already have hooked up.

Next year, gas will reach the Harraseeket Inn and the Hilton Garden Inn at the northern end of the village, and extend south along Route 1 to the business park on Stonewood Drive. The pipeline could approach the Yarmouth town line in 2012.

now think about it small business burning 50,000 gallons of oil!

come on folks this is a shovel ready project let's get with the program!
Its time Maine made natural gas available to all! you'd be surprised at how close it is to your main street!

lets all get involved! get on the band wagon!