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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.

I support the Transportation and Climate Initiative. I urge Virginia leaders to join this effort to reduce transport related pollution.

We face a lot of tough challenges with reducing GHG productiong to address the Global Climate Emergency. Fortunately, transportation is one area where we can really changes things for the better with available technology. As the electrical grid "greens" EVs actually grow cleaner. The opposite is true for fossil-fueled (FF) vehicles as they grow dirtier with age. The low efficiency of FF vehicles coupled with the high life-cycle costs of fuel production make EVs a no-brainer if we're going to get ourselves out of this climate mess and provide a decent home of our children. In our hubris we have no concept of how things may change with warming. We've built our world, our houses, our infrastucture to serve the climate we know not one with overheating and extreme events.

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.

I am a Presbyterian elder who cares deeply for God’s creation. A stable climate is the most fundamental determinant of health. With our pollution, we are contributing to more and earlier deaths and disability. 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. We have not only a health issue, but a moral issue because particulate emissions especially impact people living near major roads, which are often lower income and minority communities. We need a clean transportation system, and a clean-energy economy. Because I live just across the river, everything Virginia does to affect its air affects me.
TCI-P will greatly help Virginia and the region do this. 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; and (3) affords Virginia the opportunity for a cleaner, healthier transportation system.

I am a Fairfax County resident working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the Countywide Energy and Climate Action Plan. It is critical that we all urgently work to reduce the biggest source of GHG emissions in our Commonwealth – transportation. TCI-P will help our county and all of Virginia improve air quality near roads and highways, lower health problems like asthma, lower healthcare costs and generate revenue for many environmental initiatives! This will particularly correct historic inequities in overburdened and underserved communities that are more greatly impacted by environmental pollution. We must have a vision to move toward a future using clean, renewable energy. TCI-P can help us do that.

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

I 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-than-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.

As a Ph.D. Physicist I am technically aware of the burdensome cost and technically ineffectiveness of the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI.)
Virginia should not join the TCI because the people of Virginia can not afford the burdens the TCI would impose.