TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

TCI is unwanted, un-needed and if it is to be considered must go thru proper legislative channels. These commie back door no vote tactics are an attempt to kill the economic and political fabric of Massachusetts. More open honest debate is what is needed not less.

CO2 is required for life and taxing fuel for the benefit of the elite is an immoral act akin to genocide.

https://www.zerohedge.com/article/cap-and-trade-gigantic-scam

No new gas tax for anything! People in Maine can't afford any more taxes! We are one of the most expensive states in the USA!

For most Mainers we depend on the forestry industry, we have to travel to work, not just a 5 minute drive, more like an hour plus. My wife has to drive her and our son for appointments over an hour and 4 hours away. We are a 1 income family because my wife is disabled. For us to get any decent health care we have to go way out of town..

You’ve no doubt already heard from the TCI’s detractors which likely made no impact on this absurd policy.

I recently returned from Copenhagen, Denmark where Climate Change group think is in full tilt. The skyline is dotted with windmills, the bike paths are as wide as car lanes, there’s a 25% surcharge on all restaurant meals and a 180% tariff on cars all to become “carbon neutral” by 2025. With a population of 750,000 and 1.5 million bicycles, it was amusing to think how riding a bike in winter works out. Better yet, what do they do if they visit a pub at night and have to make it home on icy roads? Do they do make 20 trips to the grocery store per week since their bicycle baskets can only hold so many items? Technology has evolved and lifted billions out of poverty because of carbon fuels. Now, you want our country to go backwards?

No one wants pollution. But, climate change advocates can’t differentiate between pollution and “man-made” global warming which in junk science as well as a power and wealth grab by the global elites. If Thunberg is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, then the planet is doomed anyway. That’s almost as bad as B. Hussein O. being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The irony of my visit to Scandanavia is that the people love their herring but can’t eat it more than twice a month because the Baltic Sea is so polluted. They can’t do anything about climate change but should be and could be working on cleaning up the sea which is the lifeblood of their economies.

In closing, my eye doctor’s assistant works in Portland, ME but commutes from Oxford county. Increasing the burden on her commute by increasing gasoline taxes to boost government revenues is not only foolish but, if I had the power to do so, I would make it a criminal offense.

Please support Maine in developing low carbon transportation. Primarily, I believe we need increased passenger trains and all electric buses and cars. I fear that without rapid improvement in this and many other areas, we will face a climate emergency within 10 or 20 years, and our children's lives will be terribly harmed. Nothing is more important than this.

Extinctions, floods and fires are absolute evidence of catastrophic climate change. Having let the politics of profit fritter away earlier efforts to decrease our dependence on fossil fuels, at this late date we need to do everything we can to both eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and greatly increase carbon sequestration if we are to survive. To reduce emissions without compromising nature's sequestration capabilities, responsibly produced solar, wind and hydro electricity must replace fossil fuels in transportation.

Living in rural ME, needing a vehicle, increased gas prices would impede travel to doctors appointment in further communities and cause an already stretched budget to created more problems . Also, my husband still works full time as a carpenter and travels up to 60 miles for work in other communities. He has to have a full size truck to carry all his tools. I understand that Governor Mills wants and pledged to reduce the carbon footprint in ME but I don’t think these efforts will help if others surrounding us or the federal government doesn’t fund or try to do it too. I feel that attacking her constituents directly is not good and attacking big business who can afford it should be targeted. It’s hard enough to live in ME and she will be forcing more residents to look for other places to live if more taxes and increases are imposed on us.

Gas and fuel taxes are being compared to sin taxes. It is no sin to travel to work or heat your home nor is recreation. Our livelihood here in depends heavily on tourism. The sin is the added tax!

The people of Maine are concerned about the climate crisis and they want better options for their transportation needs. We also need to be investing in the development of solutions to the problems that are behind the climate crisis. And we are just plain out of time. We either get it right now or we can look forward to a planet that cannot sustain human life or any other life either. There's no where to go to escape the consequences that we're already beginning to see clearly. It's literally "now or never."