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| | | Resolve, To Encourage Use of Alternative Energy Sources |
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| | | Sec. 1. Energy Resources Council to study. Resolved: That the Energy | | Resources Council, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, | | Title 5, section 3327, in coordination with the Department of | | Environmental Protection, shall study: |
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| | | 1. The costs and benefits of state government actions and | | options to stimulate an increase in the percentage of various | | alternative transportation fuels and alternatively fueled | | vehicles used in the State; |
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| | | 2. The costs and benefits of state government actions and | | options to stimulate an increase in the production of biofuels in | | the State; |
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| | | 3. The related goals, practices, results and markets that | | exist in other states and provinces, especially those that share | | fuel or vehicle markets with Maine; |
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| | | 4. The potential for synergies between alternative | | transportation fuel and alternative heating fuel sectors and | | infrastructure; |
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| | | 5. The costs and benefits and actual or predicted | | transportation energy efficiency results of other initiatives, | | including dense multiuse development, long-term traffic and modal |
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