View Public Input on TCI-P

I’m opposed to Virginia joining the TCI. It will cost consumers and businesses too much at the gas pump.

It is absolutely that this be supported. It is our responibility to mitigate the damage being done to our planet. We have no other. Humans and other species are face obliteration if we continue on our present course. We are on the brink of failing. Future generatons will suffer. Many parts of the planet are already unable to exist in their area.

Please put a brake on carbon emissions while investing in cleaner, more equitable and resilient transportation systems.

Nourishing the VT Environmental warrants equal support with economic development. The environment and development are two equal blades of the shears with which humans carve the future of Vermont; the future for our water, air, soil, living creatures and humans.

We support a strong TCI-P Model Rule that moves Virginia toward a cleaner, healthier and more equitable transportation system as quickly as possible. We must address transportation as the largest source of CO2 emissions in the state and we must do so within a timeframe which will address the magnitude of the climate crisis. We call for the Model Rule to ensure that overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive a greater-then-proportional share of investments from the program, integrates air quality commitments across Virginia, and empowers Virginia's Equity Advisory Body.

We need the TCI-P to create and manage a more equitable and inexpensive public transit system. We need to add more electric powered vehicles- vans, buses, and cars. We need to cut down the green house gases for all our health.

WE DO NOT NEED A 50 CENT INCREASE IN GAS=THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO MAKE US DEPENDENT ON THEM=NO WAY

Lowering carbon emissions in the transportation sector is essential. I strongly support the Transportation and Climate Initiative Program and the proposed model rule. The prospect of being able, through this model rule, to have the cost of fuels include their pollution costs while generating needed income for alternative fuel infrastructure is a win-win. I strongly support this model rule as a way to accelerate our transition to a cleaner future.

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 also 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.

We are at a crossroads in the climate crisis. One way ensures that the world will become a much more difficult place for our children and grandchildren to live in, if we continue spewing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. The other way gives us a chance to change the direction that our world is heading towards. How many creatures have to become extinct before we address greenhouse gases? How many ocean-front properties have to be sacrificed to rising seas? How will countries deal with millions of people migrating to neighboring countries that don't want them?

Time is quickly running out. We need to act NOW. We need to adopt the TCI-P Model Rule now to ensure durable, sustained, and necessary reductions in GHG pollution.

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” Dante Alighieri. We are at that moral crisis now. What will you do?