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Please do not join the TCI for the sake of every category of wage earners as the cost of living has already gone up to high!!

I AM DEFINITELY OPOSED TO VIRGINIA JOINING TCI! I am retired but I have compassion for those people who have to drive to work everyday because there is not public transportation available.

Adding a tax onto our already skyrocketing fuel prices as Virginians come out of the Pandemic is utterly foolish. Virginia is a state with the majority of residents who must commute to their work places...often that commute is of long distance or of long time because of the huge volume of traffic on roads not designed for the large numbers of vehicles using them. Virginia does not need to be tied to other states who want to tax their residents heavily. This gasoline tax will have negative inpacts on our economy that will hurt our state's businesses...ie tourism etc. People afe having hard times now. This extra tax is not necessary at all. It's in the best interest of all that Virginia NOT join the other states in burdening their constituents with this unnecessary and misguided TAX.

Please see attached comments from the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), the National Association of Truckstop Operators (NATSO), and the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America (SIGMA), regarding the Draft Model Rule for the Transportation and Climate Initiative.

To whom it may concern,

I support a strong TCI-P Model Rule that:
(1) Ensures meaningful climate action to address Virginia's largest driver of our climate crisis,
(2) Directs significant investments to correcting historic inequities in overburdened and underserved communities;
(3) Affords Virginia the opportunity for a cleaner, healthier transportation system.
For too long business interests and lobbyists have steered public policy. It is time for things to change before it is too late.

John. C. Wise

I oppose Virginia joining the TCI. It will raise gasoline prices too much for consumers - ordinary citizens - and businesses alike, and will negatively impact those who must commute long distances to work.

This is not a tax on gasoline and diesel! This is a more accurate accounting of the true cost of gasoline and diesel. It is an elimination of the free-ride subsidy gasoline and diesel have enjoyed for years. It’s time for us to stop pretending that using gasoline and diesel has no cost: it does.

The funds collected don’t just vanish, either. The TCI proposal directs them in a productive way to clean up the transportation system, which benefits us all, and will begin paying off immediately.

Gas prices will not skyrocket! Any increases the distributors pass on will be well below the normal fluctuations we all live with. Even setting the highest cap with 25% reduction will be almost unnoticeable at the pump. Distributors will continue to compete with each other on price. Let the free market rule!

Some say this will have a negligible effect on reducing emissions. This argument assumes a baseline that already has a huge uptake of EV’s, which we are no where close to yet. We should think of TCI as insurance against the mischief and backsliding supported by fossil fuel interests.

It’s time to start being responsible for our actions.

to VT governor Scott: join the Transportation and Climate Initiative Program now!

transportation is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Virginia and the region, as well as dangerous particulates that cause health problems like asthma.
• particulate emissions especially impact those near major roads, which often include lower-income and minority communities.
• to solve these problems we need to move to a clean transportation system, and a clean-energy economy.
• TCI-P will greatly help Virginia and the region do this – it will improve air quality, lower health care costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and generate revenue for other environmental initiatives to further accelerate our progress.