View Public Input on TCI-P

This page shows public input on the TCI-P development and implementation process received through the online TCI-P Public Input Portal. You can submit your input here.

For more information on how to reach out to your jurisdiction directly, see the TCI Jurisdiction Points of Contact page.

All public input on the TCI-P development and implementation process received through the online TCI-P Public Input Portal since March 1, 2021 appears on this page. You can view public input from the 2019-2020 policy development process here.

Date	First	Last	Affiliation	City	State	Input	File
5/7/2021	Matt	Macunas	Connecticut Green Bank	Hartford	Connecticut	Letter attached Letter attached	CGB Input_TCI Model Rule 050721.pdf
5/5/2021	Dean and Janet	Welty	Retired	Harrrisonburg	Virginia	I’m opposed to Virginia joining the TCI. It will cost consumers and businesses too much at the gas pump and have a negative impact on average citizens, truckers, and businesses alike. This has... read more I’m opposed to Virginia joining the TCI. It will cost consumers and businesses too much at the gas pump and have a negative impact on average citizens, truckers, and businesses alike. This has the same effect as a 50 cent direct tax at the pump for every gallon of gas for all Virginians using fuel and a consequent dampening effect on our economy. Please do not sign on to this TCI Initiative.	-
5/5/2021	Dale	Greywolf	?	Harrisonburg	Virginia	Virginia should not join TCI. Especially at this point in time with the recovery from Covid barely underway, it will impact average citizens, truckers and businesses alike. Virginia should not join TCI. Especially at this point in time with the recovery from Covid barely underway, it will impact average citizens, truckers and businesses alike.	-
5/6/2021	Margaret	Coffman	AFP	Harrisonburg	Virginia	I’m opposed to Virginia joining the TCI. It will cost consumers and businesses too much at the gas pump. Virginia should not join TCI. It will impact average citizens, truckers and... read more I’m opposed to Virginia joining the TCI. It will cost consumers and businesses too much at the gas pump. Virginia should not join TCI. It will impact average citizens, truckers and businesses alike. Virginia cannot afford to join the TCI. The cost to the energy sector will trickle down and impact all Virginians using fuel.	-
5/7/2021	Virginia	Bethune	retired	HARRISONBURG	Virginia	Please put a brake on carbon emissions while investing in cleaner, more equitable and resilient transportation systems. Please put a brake on carbon emissions while investing in cleaner, more equitable and resilient transportation systems.	-
5/7/2021	Alexander	Pellegrino	CCAN	Harrisonburg	Virginia	I am writing in broad support of this model rule with a few specific recommendations for incorporation. Overall, TCI represents an important step for our commonwealth to be better regional... read more I am writing in broad support of this model rule with a few specific recommendations for incorporation. Overall, TCI represents an important step for our commonwealth to be better regional stewards of our climate and receive financial benefits. Especially by adopting TCI and incorporating strong equity provisions, we can ensure that emissions are reduced and communities that are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis receive disproportionate health and financial benefits. Specific recommendations: Air quality monitoring commitments should be integrated into the Model Rule. Each Participating Jurisdiction should establish air pollution reduction targets. Establish an equity advisory board TCI-P decision-makers must attribute the same weight and urgency to comments from overburdened and underserved communities discussing impacts of TCI-P on those communities as they do to comments regarding technical program design.	-
5/7/2021	Fred	Lavy	none	Harrisonburg	Virginia	It is especially important to curtail or eliminate the use of highly polluting diesel fuel. It is especially important to curtail or eliminate the use of highly polluting diesel fuel.	-
5/7/2021	Jenny	Hansbrough	Healthcare	Harrisonburg	Virginia	I strongly oppose the plan to increase the cost of gas for this project. Families and businesses are already hurting from the “government free money” plan - no one wants to work! Now you want to... read more I strongly oppose the plan to increase the cost of gas for this project. Families and businesses are already hurting from the “government free money” plan - no one wants to work! Now you want to add a tax to gas? This will increase the costs of all services.	-
5/7/2021	Kyle	Lawrence	Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition	Harrisonburg	Virginia	The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition supports a strong TCI-P Model Rule that (1) ensures meaningful climate action to address Virginia's largest driver of our climate crisis, (2) directs... read more The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition supports 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; and (3) affords Virginia the opportunity for a cleaner, healthier transportation system. We call for the TCI-P Model Rule to include (1) a minimum investment amount to ensure overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive a greater-then-proportional share of investments from the program, (2) integration of air quality commitments across Virginia, and (3) robust empowerment of Virginia's Equity Advisory Body.	-
5/7/2021	Kyle	Lawrence	Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition	Harrisonburg	Virginia	The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition supports a strong TCI-P Model Rule that (1) ensures meaningful climate action to address Virginia's largest driver of our climate crisis, (2) directs... read more The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition supports 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; and (3) affords Virginia the opportunity for a cleaner, healthier transportation system. We call for the TCI-P Model Rule to include (1) a minimum investment amount to ensure overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive a greater-then-proportional share of investments from the program, (2) integration of air quality commitments across Virginia, and (3) robust empowerment of Virginia's Equity Advisory Body.	-
5/7/2021	Margaret	Arbogast	Peaked Mountain Farm	Harrisonburg	Virginia	Virginia cannot afford to join the TCI. The cost to the energy sector will trickle down and impact all Virginians using fuel including farmers who produce your food. Thank you, Margaret Arbogast... Virginia cannot afford to join the TCI. The cost to the energy sector will trickle down and impact all Virginians using fuel including farmers who produce your food. Thank you, Margaret Arbogast	-
5/8/2021	Ramona	Sanders	Muhlenberg Lutheran Church	HARRISONBURG	Virginia	Put the brakes on carbon emissions. Put the brakes on carbon emissions.	-
5/7/2021	Phyllis	Cox	VAIPL	Greenville	Virginia	Rural areas continue to lack funding for transportation and the county in which I live, Augusta, is a prime example. Rural areas continue to lack funding for transportation and the county in which I live, Augusta, is a prime example.	-
5/5/2021	Joshua	Raimundo	American	Great Falls	Virginia	Please, VA, do not join the TCI. As a long time Virginia tax pair, I don't want to see my taxes increase. But beyond that, there are people who are struggling in a pandemic right now where... read more Please, VA, do not join the TCI. As a long time Virginia tax pair, I don't want to see my taxes increase. But beyond that, there are people who are struggling in a pandemic right now where cents on the dollar at the pump means a meal for their children, or getting to work that day or not. Gas taxes are often associated with spending on corporate welfare, the last thing we need. So please do not join the TCI!	-
5/7/2021	Hal	Donahue	retired energy executive	Great Falls	Virginia	Remember acid rain? Many of you may not as it is no longer poisoning our earth and water. One way this problem was so dramatically and quickly solved was a proposal similar to TCI-P. ... read more Remember acid rain? Many of you may not as it is no longer poisoning our earth and water. One way this problem was so dramatically and quickly solved was a proposal similar to TCI-P. Companies were paid to reduce emissions by polluting companies unable to reduce emissions quickly. When proposed, the affected industries screamed that the compliance costs would destroy them and their 'projections' indicated that it could. Meanwhile, the advocates for change indicated costs would be low. The result was that the regulations and fees to comply were well below the lowest projections. It was, and is, a truly outstanding success. We must move to a modern transportation system and a clean-energy economy. Those changing first will reap the most benefits and the lowest costs. Economically, it will strengthen our economy, reduce greenhouse gas, and provide funding to create a leading edge business climate to further create jobs and profitable ideas.	-
5/5/2021	Kim	Jemaine	Chesapeake Climate Action Network	Glen Allen	Virginia	We call for the TCI-P Model Rule to include (1) a minimum investment amount to ensure overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive a greater-then-proportional share of investments... read more We call for the TCI-P Model Rule to include (1) a minimum investment amount to ensure overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive a greater-then-proportional share of investments from the program, (2) integration of air quality commitments across Virginia, and (3) robust empowerment of Virginia's Equity Advisory Body. Overall, we support a rule which ensures meaningful climate action and sets forth significant investment in historically overburdened communities.	-
5/7/2021	Robert & Janet	Chesnut	Presbyterian Church	Glen Allen	Virginia	We support the TCI-P Rule giving more support to challenged and undeserved communities and to environmental safeguards. We support the TCI-P Rule giving more support to challenged and undeserved communities and to environmental safeguards.	-
5/3/2021	Brenda	Miller	Virginia Resident	Fredericksburg	Virginia	I am not in support of this initiative due to the research and the tax/increase in fuel cost. I am not in support of this initiative due to the research and the tax/increase in fuel cost.	-
5/3/2021	Peter M	Walton	Virginia citizen	Fredericksburg	Virginia	This effort is bad policy for Virginia to adopt. It penalizes those who communte long distance and offers no benefits to either the state's road systems. Studies indicate this regressive... read more This effort is bad policy for Virginia to adopt. It penalizes those who communte long distance and offers no benefits to either the state's road systems. Studies indicate this regressive form of taxation will not have the desired effects on the enviornment, actually providing negligible benefits while disprapotionately imposing higher commuting costs on low and middle income families.	-
5/3/2021	Sandra	Cuddy	Virginia resident	Fredericksburg	Virginia	As a resident if Virginia, such a tax would make our retired lives here very difficult. Our income is limited. I’m not sure how we could afford transportation to the supermarket, doctor... read more As a resident if Virginia, such a tax would make our retired lives here very difficult. Our income is limited. I’m not sure how we could afford transportation to the supermarket, doctor appointments, volunteer opportunities, visits to our sons and grandchild who are an hour away, etc. We don’t live next to a main highway with mass transportation. The winters are too cold, the ice too slippery, no sidewalks, distances too far and we are too old to walk everywhere. We might have to move to a state that is more senior-friendly. I can’t even begin to imagine the hardship this will cause: gas or meds, gas or food, gas or internet, gas or life???	-

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