Jake Auchincloss: “Bay Staters pay roughly twice as much for utilities as…”

“What can Massachusetts do and what can you do on the federal level to bring down rates? Yeah, I mean, there's a. There's sort of a short term and a long term on this Bay Staters pay roughly twice as much for utilities as comparable states do. I mean, we really. There's a huge energy tax here in Massachusetts, and. I don't think a lot of folks always realize this, but our swing supply, summer and winter, is liquefied natural gas from Yemen.” (23:37–23:45)

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