TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

If there isn't a problem, this TCI program will create one. Adding fees to the producers/distributor is just conscripting business to collect a tax on consumers.
I've listened to all the hand wring and false claim of imminent disaster for the last 60 years (from "the Ice Ages is coming, to "the Oceans will flood the world" and "the hurricane will get worse"). None of it has happened. The whole thing is a fabrication based on extrapolations of a chaotic (in the mathematical sense) computer program trying to solve the Navier-Stokes equation for a turbulent boundary layer on a spinning sphere with gravity and variable heat input. The science isn't there yet!
Blaming every thing on the Industrial Revolution ignores the fact the the Little Ice Age ended about 1850 (the last winter carnival on the frozen Thames outside London was 1814). Anyone with a little history would expect the world to get warmer after that.
With out an atmosphere the Earth would have an average temperature like the Moon -- zero degrees F. (This can also be calculated from basic radiant heat transfer.) So we are getting ~60 degrees of global warming from the atmosphere. If CO2 was a major contributor, increasing from 280 ppm to 415ppm (an almost 50% increase) there should be more than a 0.8 Deg C increase.
There is no technical basic for the panic!
I'm all in favor of better, more efficient, safer public transportation! But that means for the most part catching up on all the deferred maintenance.

The electric bus is an idea whose time has come. Improving mass transit in general is one of the easier ways to mitigate climate change. Making mass transit free would be a positive step toward environmental justice.

I am very concerned about reducing pollution from transportation, which is our largest source of global warming emissions. I request that New York State formally join the plan to reduce emissions and demand that the policy has a strong component of equity by prioritizing clean investments in areas overburdened by pollution and/or for those who don't have access.
I appreciate the bipartisan nature of this project, moving us forward while the federal government takes us backward.

We can cut poverty and pollution at the same time. I urge you to move forward with a regional program that prioritizes the needs of communities overburdened with pollution and underserved in mobility options.

TCI is the most important thing to happen in New England for a long time. There is a great of talk and admissions about emissions, (nice turn of phrase, don't you think?) but actually tempering the huge carbon imprint that transportation represents has yet to be tackled. TCI is our starting point and the fear and reality of rising gas prices is a small price to pay to get this transition, upon which our survival rests, started.

Massachusetts does better than many states in terms of environmental initiatives, but we are a long way from where we could be. We are working against a clock that seems to be accelerating (as is the climate crisis). We need to speed up our productive responses.

As a citizen of coastal Maine, one the ocean's fastest warming seas,
(already affecting our lobstering industry), and at the "tailpipe" of the nation's carbon emitters, polluting our air, affecting our elder's and children's health, I strongly support a carbon fee and dividend plan like the Citizens Climate Lobby's proposal. It should start at a level to reduce in green-house gas within a relatively short period, 5-10 years, minimize the impact on lower income and rural households, and be based on actual facts.

Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the discussion on what I consider the most important issue if my lifetime. I so appreciate that this sounds like an honestly bipartisan effort.

Please stop taxing us to DEATH! The middle class bears all the burdens. What are you thinking? We can hardly put food on the table and my heat is set to 58 degrees. STOP THIS INSANITY!!

As transportation contributes the majority of carbon it is urgent that we transition to using electricity for motor vehicles, heating while ensuring no adverse impact on minorities and low income folks