TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

AFPM is a trade association representing high-tech American manufacturers of nearly 90% of U.S. supply of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, other fuels and home heating oil, as well as nearly all the petrochemicals used as building blocks for thousands of vital products in daily life. AFPM members make modern life possible and keep America moving and growing as they meet the needs of our nation and local communities, strengthen economic and national security, and support more than three million American jobs.

Transportation is the country’s and region’s leading source of carbon emissions. The Transportation and Climate Initiative will help to clean this sector up, This program could help to create safe roads for biking and walking, more frequent and reliable public transportation, greater access to electric vehicles, and a more equitable system with cleaner transportation options for everyone in the region.

My hybrid automobile is my only usage of fossil fuels. (I have lived in fossil fuel free homes since 1980- my electricity is now powered by solar and heat is geothermal). I would like to switch to an electric vehicle if there was an affordable one that met my family's needs. In villages and cities, bike lanes are needed to make biking a safe and clean (and healthy) way to travel. With fewer gasoline and diesel vehicles on the road, the air would be cleaner for pedestrians and bikers to breathe. All around, I encourage New York and the other northeastern states to enact the TCI.

This tax is a VERY bad idea! I live in rural Maine. I am retired and on disability. I will not have money to drive to my doctor appointments or buy oil for heat. Please do not do this to us.

We know that reductions in emissions from the transportation sector are essential if we are to lower the threats posed by climate change. We also know that emissions reductions are considerably cheaper than suffering the increases in damages that inaction brings. Further we know that the longer we wait to lower those emissions, the higher the cost will be. As someone who has studied these kinds of systems for my entire career I know of no more cost-effective and fairer approach than this type of system. I look forward to reading the comments of those who propose an alternative system capable of achieving achieve similar emissions reductions that can be demonstrated to be both fairer and more cost-effective than this proposal.

We need to take bold and quick action to improve our transportation systems and dramatically decrease our emissions. The Transportation and Climate Initiative is an opportunity to do this on a regional scale. Leadership of the TCI jurisdictions should choose the most aggressive greenhouse gas reduction target that science tells us we need, and focus investments in areas overburdened by pollution and areas that don't have access to transportation choices. We need a strong Transportation and Climate Initiative.

As a lifelong resident of the Northeast Corridor (Maine-DC), I cannot state more strongly the need for improved public transportation options. Driving from Charlottesville (when I was in college) to New York sometimes took up to 8 hours due to traffic. I now live in the DC area and would prefer to take the train home to visit family, but it is cost prohibitive in comparison to driving. It's ridiculous that the better environmental choice is more expensive monetarily. All of us in the Northeast Corridor (as well as the rest of the country) deserve better options.

How do I access public input once Mou is released Dec 17th? Can you put me on notification of actions list?