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This is one of the worst ideas dreamed up. The cost is extremely high and the return is nil. Virginia should not participate.

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’m opposed to Virginia joining the TCI. It will cost consumers and businesses too much at the gas pump. This ignorance of trying to kill fossil fuels in a short order is irresponsible. Technology is improving and we will get there but not at the expense of killing businesses and costing families more. This venture needs to be funded privately not by the taxpayer! Stop the stupidity!!

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.

Hello. I support Virginia's adoption of the Transportation & Climate Initiative (TCI). Transportation is the largest contributor of carbon emissions in the Commonwealth. TCI provides the opportunity for all Virginian's to have a cleaner, healthier, more efficient, and more equitable transportation system. Feel free to contact me to further discuss how TCI can enable many ambitious projects to realize a better future for Virginia. Thank you.

Stuart Gardner

Virginia should not join TCI. It will impact average citizens, truckers and businesses alike. We can not afford to pay these suggested fuel prices.

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!

I am opposed to Virginia joining the TCI (Transportation Climate Initiative) for a number of reasons:
1) The technology for developing alternative, carbon-neutral energy sources has not reached a point where it is affordable, available and environmentally safe, and with regard to certain “sustainable” energy systems, will enrich the coffers of the CCP where at least 80% of solar panels are manufactured;
2) We have not learned the lesson of decimating the coal industry without having suitable energy source replacements or job training for conversion;
3) Virginia is attempting to restore its economic footing and presumably regain its ranking as one of the best states in which to do business – to attract new or transferring industry;
4) This will contribute significantly to inflation as the costs of everything that requires delivery will escalate dramatically, particularly what is delivered by the trucking industry;
5) This includes new or re-hab housing costs, which are already suffering from distribution delays;
6) This will affect the affordability of food – and hence will have dramatic effects on the nutrition and health of the American public, particularly those at the lower end of the economic spectrum (see in particular fruits and vegetables);
7) The disadvantage to rural citizens is immense – access to health care – even with telemedicine since broadband is certainly less available – access to employment, and access to life in general will be disproportionately affected;
8) The resultant increase in gas at the pump will disproportionately affect senior citizens – who suffer from more than enough isolation as it is – because they are on fixed incomes and not at an age where they can find or qualify for employment – and rural seniors are often in areas with minimal transportation alternatives as it is;
9) It will have the greatest impact on small businesses that can ill afford the related costs this entails and will throw a major wet blanket over entrepreneurial endeavors;
10) It will, I have no doubt, increase unemployment in Virginia – and the Commonwealth seems to be having a “slight” problem handling the unemployment claims we currently have.
I sincerely hope this is rejected – or at least tabled until technology actually makes it remotely feasible.
Kim Smith, Madison