TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Maine is a rural State and Maine is a poor State. Maine depends on agriculture, fishing and forestry all of which use gas and diesel. Joining this group will create an additional burden on hard working and honest Maine people. Janet Mills was not elected to run a dictatorship in Maine. TCI is bad for Maine and bad for this country.

we the people can not afford another tax ,especially another fuel tax of any kind .they say its to fix the roads and for a greener earth which is so much bull its sicking ,they didnt even spend the tax money that we already pay on fixing any roads .we the people can not afford anymore taxes you the government and big business will just have to live off the millions of dollars that you already rape us of !!!!

This is a raw deal for over 3/4ths of the state of maine i strongly oppose increasing our already astronomical tax burden. I fail to see how raising taxes will accomplish anything but put more strain on rural people like myself whom have no option of pupblic transportation or electric cars

Maine is reducing emissions without taking much needed money from it's citizens. There is never a real "Program" that will accomplish what the stated goals are. It always ends up being a cash cow for other Programs and pet projects for politicians. The people of Maine need their money to live with not fund Government feel good boondoggles that make for good press releases and do little for the Maine people.

Truthfully, I have no idea where you have gotten this idea from, or what you are thinking.
While many of the public transit "solutions" and feel-good methods you propose might make sense in a densely packed urban area like DC, Massachusetts, ect, in Maine they are terrible ideas, as Maine is largely rural. In fact, with Maine being 89% wooded, the most wooded state on the East coast, I think that these methods are unnecessary. Rural Maine depends on individual vehicles for transportation, and ANOTHER tax on top of what people are already paying will seek to negatively effect an already fragile economy, and burden and ALREADY overtaxed people. Unless over taxation and thus making Maine more difficult to live in is the real goal.
There are many things we all can do to REALLY make the world a better place and our environment leaner and NONE of them involve additional taxation or giving the government more power.
NO new gas tax. NO other taxes either. Clean up your OWN yard before you complain about that of your neighbors.

According to the United States Energy Information Administration, Maine ranks 45th for carbon dioxide emissions and releases approximately 0.3 percent of total carbon emissions in the United States. Becoming carbon neutral in Maine would do little to curb climate change, aside from being a symbolic gesture.

I am very pissed off at you flunkies that want to bring on yet another tax to our fuel. You all have nothing better to do than to raise taxes on everyone and hide it under a name like Cap and Trade or Carbon Neutral Funding crap. Enough taxes already. This carbon neutral is junk. Nothing but a scam or a scheme to steal more money out of the hard working taxpayers of this state and county. You can go take this and shove it up your carbon neutral backside and go get bent.

Maine isn’t California. Most of its citizens live outside city and have to travel a long ways to get where they are going on a regular basis. This initiative will hurt the poor and elderly in our state tremendously. Our cost of living is already ridiculous this would just add to it.

Pushing for electric vehicles only transfers emissions from tailpipes to smoke stacks of power plants and battery factories that have other pollution issues is no solution. Mills is blind to the real issues facing Mainers. We are a large rural state in a cold climate and T.C.I. is a ridiculouse idea that can only have a negative impact on the People of Maine.