Most of the power in Vermont is hydro from Canada, nuclear from New Hampshire, local hydro or solar and wind, with some diesel peaking generators: https://en.w

Most of the power in Vermont is hydro from Canada, nuclear from New Hampshire, local hydro or solar and wind, with some diesel peaking generators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Vermont#Supply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Vermont#Supply A lot of people do use LP gas in tanks for heating buildings and water, but lots of people have wood stoves as heat backup since snow and ice storms regularly take down the grid and make LP deliveries impossible. Maine is similar as are the rural parts of New Hampshire. Anyone who lives in a cold climate already knows you have to have backups for heat. Home generators/solar are popular also. So a lack of LNG (which is different than Liquid Propane gas used in rural home heating) might affect Boston and the more populous sections of New England, but it probably isn't going to be a major disaster elsewhere in the region. The reason Maine vetoed the transmission line is because Massachusetts completely ignored Maine's needs in designing it, like running an extension cord through your neighbors house. It may succeed if Massachusetts offers some benefit for Maine from a new transmission line. There are not a lot of people in Maine though, so there may only be downsides for Maine from a new transmission line and no upside. NIMBY implies people want the service but don't want the ugly industrial part of it in their back yard. This is more like Massachusetts trying to put the ugly industrial part in Maine's back yard, and understandably Maine doesn't want it if it has no benefit to Maine. You can argue that Maine should allow it because Climate Crisis, but that's a different argument, which might require some federal involvement in improving the USA grid. All that said, the quality of power in Vermont is terrible, I often see 10 major glitches per month and have arranged most everything in my house to run off UPS's. I think the problem is tree branches; the pine trees are so tall that even with a wide right of way the branches can often reach the power lines and cause the contactors to turn off for a few seconds before they automatically reset, especially when it is windy.