TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

The TCI vehicle fuel tax justification is hog wash. The environmental con job continues having been turned into a self induced victim hood syndrome, especially at The RI General Assembly & Governors office on Smith Hill In a Crime Town sanctuary City State aka RI . This a vehicle creating even more wasteful revenue streams of extorted tax payer monies. The earths natural climate / GEO cycle will continue. Here in RI the shore line will continue to sink and erode while the inland region will rise. This the reverse of the last ice age event. The costly measures taken by Northern Germany & Holland would only slow the inevitable. Finally the self inflicted Green Suicide championed especially by the proponents of an already failed in Europe alleged green Wind and Solar Industrial Complex must end. The existing RI natural gas and electricity distribution network has already suffered from neglect in part justified by a chicken little environmental madness. We must look to construction of pipe lines from PA & across NY State bringing desperately needed domestic shale gas into Southern New England. The alternatives LNG Ships at a Narragansett Bay off loading and storage terminal. Or LNG Rail Cars again a local off loading and storage terminal. Or, increase the size of the LNG truck convoys already on the roads delivering LNG to RI gas peaking faculties during especially the night time hours. As well adding electrical generating capacity via combined cycle shale gas fueled power stations. These measures will serve as a 'Time Bridge" to tomorrows disruptive electrical power generation technologies. That is the US congress has already acknowledged and supported Bills passed and signed by President Trump that align the nation Lab assets in support of disruptive Generation IV power Station technologies. Never the less Environmental radicals continue to gather supporting an agenda of the already failed in Europe W & S Industrial Complex and or other energy sources and conversion methods etc.

Time is of the essence! We must take steps NOW to reduce the need to fossil fuel use and transportation is a huge part of that.

With our suburban, spread out neighborhoods we have to have cars just to get food. There are many towns that we can't get to in a timely manner on Cape Cod because the CCRT's one bus at a time makes travel without a car, especially for visitors, too timely. It would take a whole day to ride busses from Falmouth to Provincetown. I'm not complaining about CCRT because I know it is a lifeline for many Cape residents. Trains from Cape Cod to Boston would help with commuters and locals with business or fun in Boston. The traffic to the Steamship Authority ferry terminal in Woods Hole is extremely polluting and intrusive to local residents. More public transit would be most useful there.

I am concerned we have a viable world for our children, their children and all that follow us. We need to take steps to reduce the amount of chemicals we create, put in the air, dump in the waters and bury in landfills or we won't have a viable world.

Adding to the ailing health and the environment is the horrible traffic we face on our highways and byways. Let’s work on a regional transportation policy that turns this dire situation around!

everything possible needs to be done to reduce emissions, and enforce better gas mileage. It's totally ridiculous to have all these gas and diesel guzzlers clogging the highways.

We need to do everything we can to cut greenhouse gas and polluting emissions. Please support clean vehicles! I support the TCI.

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.

I am a former wind energy engineer. I am very concerned that we reduce carbon emissions as soon and as fast as possible.
1. Do a carbon tax or fee or cap and invest. Do NOT propose a cap and trade program!
2. Collected fees must be returned to citizens - to ensure strong public support
3. Make sure the dividends are structured to make sure low income communities are not unduly burdened by the transition to a green economy
4. Make sure that the tax or cap is adjusted each year to reduce emissions to zero by 2050
5. Provide rigorous independent studies to document the expected efficacy and possible down sides of the proposed plan

We have no time to lose! Any proposal must meet these requirements as it needs to be publicly acceptable and effectively reduce emissions!