2/25/2020 |
Ian |
Lawson |
ECRI |
Warren |
Rhode Island |
I support the TCI because we need strong coordinated planning to decarbonize transportation. I hope to see a Rhode Island where no one is forced to contribute to green house gas emissions simply... read more I support the TCI because we need strong coordinated planning to decarbonize transportation. I hope to see a Rhode Island where no one is forced to contribute to green house gas emissions simply because they need to get to work, buy food, or visit family and friends. |
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2/25/2020 |
margo |
wade |
concerned resident and mother |
Warren |
Vermont |
As a mother of two teens and resident of this beautiful state, I am concerned about the climate crisis, our future, my children's future and future generation’s futures. To this end, I urge... read more As a mother of two teens and resident of this beautiful state, I am concerned about the climate crisis, our future, my children's future and future generation’s futures. To this end, I urge Vermont to participate in the Transportation and Climate Initiative so that all Vermonters, including my kids, live in a world where they do not have to choose between being able to get where they need to go and polluting the planet irreparably.
We have a shrinking window of opportunity here. If we continue to drag our feet and take baby steps we will miss the mark and change the planet irreparably. Now is the time to take bold action. Choosing to support the TCI is one way we can act.
Vermont, like other states, desperately needs additional funding to create innovative, equitable transportation options for all, including seniors, people with disabilities, people with low incomes, for whom transportation costs and accessibility are an added burden, children, residents and visitors alike to our great state. TCI can provide this support.
As an individual who loves to recreate outside I see the high need to preserve the beauty and fresh air, biodiversity and wildlife, and make our state more accessible. We might be a rural state, but that is no excuse for expecting people to rely solely on personal vehicles, which are costly to operate and have limitations for many, in addition to being high polluters.
As you know, Vermont’s participation in a cap and invest program is not new. Under Governor Jim Douglas, Vermont joined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in 2008. This cap and invest program covers the electric sector in the Northeast, and it has proven very successful, reducing consumer costs and carbon pollution from the power sector by 40%.
Vermont has strategically invested the revenues raised from RGGI, directing the $2 million annually into weatherization programs that help Vermonters stop wasting energy and save money. We know this type of project works — there is no excuse not to adopt TCI as well.
TCI provides the opportunity to tackle the biggest problem of our day — the climate crisis — by reducing emissions in our state’s most carbon-intensive sector, while diverting funds into much-needed transportation infrastructure that will benefit all.
We can either seize this opportunity to make monumental progress and have a chance to prosper in a clean energy future, or accept a status quo that is only becoming more and more difficult for Vermonters and more harmful to our environment.
I urge Vermont to formally join TCI so we can create a clean energy future that works better for everyone, especially our most vulnerable. Thank you for the work you’ve done so far to advance TCI across the region. |
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12/20/2019 |
chris |
zangari |
Unaffiliated |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
This is a classic regressive tax. I oppose the TCI. This appears an attempt to supplement the budget shortfalls of Rhode Island which are significant. This significant gas tax will... read more This is a classic regressive tax. I oppose the TCI. This appears an attempt to supplement the budget shortfalls of Rhode Island which are significant. This significant gas tax will disproportionally hurt lower income citizens who have limited budgets and can not afford to purchase a new hybrid or electric vehicle. I will support both financially and with my vote, candidates that openly and firmly oppose the TCI. |
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12/22/2019 |
JOSEPH N |
NAHOD |
none |
WARWICK |
Rhode Island |
No to any new or expanded gas tax. No to any new or expanded gas tax. |
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12/22/2019 |
Bradford |
Patten |
Independant |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
Taxes on climate is a farce, a way to steal money from the taxpayer. If its carbon that you have an issue with plant more trees! Seriously this climate debate is a lie, it was global cooling then... read more Taxes on climate is a farce, a way to steal money from the taxpayer. If its carbon that you have an issue with plant more trees! Seriously this climate debate is a lie, it was global cooling then global warming make up you minds and stop lying about what this tax really is. We don't need government to regulate gas, once the people have spoken listen or face being voted out. |
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12/23/2019 |
Jon |
Howland |
Voting Citizen and Taxpayer |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
Being in the Technologies allows me to be in direct contact with many in the Science Community. As far as I have learned, there is no climate issue presently, except for evidence leaning toward a... read more Being in the Technologies allows me to be in direct contact with many in the Science Community. As far as I have learned, there is no climate issue presently, except for evidence leaning toward a cooling climate due to an present and oncoming solar minimum. Your carbon concerns are your own and not validated by evidence. I refuse to have my hard-earned money be wasted by such blatantly political and frivolous projects. Most of the People I know are also not fooled by your un-scientific claims. Do not even try to tax We the People for any more of your unproven hypotheses. There is a growing intolerance for such foolishness. If you want to waste your time and money on your pet projects, feel free to solicit voluntary donations to your cause. forget about trying to tax us for them. If you do, you do at your own peril. We are looking at such behavior as extortion, and robbery. Keep that in mind . . . |
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12/23/2019 |
CAPT Donald P |
Galamaga USN Ret |
Retired US Navy Ship Command Qualified Officer |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
Weather and its relationship to long term Climate Change dynamics have always been a subject of professional interest and application for me during my active service with the United States Navy... read more Weather and its relationship to long term Climate Change dynamics have always been a subject of professional interest and application for me during my active service with the United States Navy and in retirement in matters of communication with similarly interested colleagues and community members, including members of the Rhode Island House of Representative and Senate and local City Council members as it related to shoreline degradation and change and changes in the characteristics of our waterways. I am seriously concerned that much of the advocacy of persons with public administrative and political policy responsibilities have, too often identified with activities more focused on "consensus" rather than knowledge acquisition both directly and indirectly to the causes and effects of weather and long term climate results and trends and cycles. Unfortunately, for Rhode Island, the TCI Regional Policy design finds itself as completely unsatisfactory for the people of this state and needs to be rejected outright. Our Governor may have good intentions but she has been misled by the politicization of a topic which recommends a directions which may well rebound negatively to the economic and well being environment of RHode Island residents and visitors. Recent former NASA scientists and climate professionals have, in an macro set of analyses, that actions and directions as indicated by the TCI policy design begin to have a deleterious effect when about one third of the actions undertaken begin to have a negative macro effect on various carbon creation remediation activities, increasing rather than decreasing the overall carbon footprint based on the realistic need for reliable energy generation to support expansion of alternative energy activity. Additionally, this effect then expands to log kinds of trend proportions, meaning that attempts to reduce this effect until alternative energy balance is achieved costs even more than replacement benefit intended. The cost to taxpayers and ratepayers and mobile replacement remediation replacement would be enormous, again, even if only one third of the TCI policies were implemented. Recall, that tax benefit already exists to support commercial viability of alternative mobile and energy operations. The windmill experiment is supported by an infinite cost of operation escalator to keep viable. At the same time, climate claims about the albedo of the earth are being placed into doubt as the sun seems to have moved into its cooling posture and plate tectonic movements now are causing some scientists to indicated that waters are not rising in some costal venues. Rather subsidence of large portions of plates may be the cause of "deeper" waters. These conclusions need long term analysis and warn that consensus oriented policies regarding climate need much further studies before the first penny of added taxation or fees are dedicated to what in reality is consensus exaggeration. This is critical, in that, in Rhode Island, long term neglect of the infrastructure of the state has resulted in poor bridges, dams, public buildings and schools, not to mention health care facilities and the need for alternative rail and road access to places like Hartford, CT, which is going thru an economic renewal. The current TCI policy supporters have been luuled to sleep by some who claim that energy production needs from oil and natural gas are on their way out. tell that to the citizens of Middletown and Newport and some of Portsmouth. In 2019, we have a the smallest state in the union which does not have 100% residential access to natural gas lines or water lines that have been renewed or electric transmission lines that leak badly. Much need to be done now before RI decides to go on a radical "consensus" exploration. Very bad, Governor. Time to examine what benefit we get from regional committees who have done nothing for the state to have full flowing access to traditional energy, some of which leaks from Boston ports that get very cold or hot weather LNG from Russia. Time to stop this foolishness. The governor is on her way out and appears to be seeking camaraderie with public political endeavors that her party presidential candidates are highlighting to the public, it seems with not much success. Stop this endeavor. It is wrong. |
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1/5/2020 |
Dennis |
Allen |
Independant |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
STOP...STOP....STOP
This is an assault on American freedom.
RI government is out of control.
We have the freedom to move out of this state,
RI state of delusion. STOP...STOP....STOP
This is an assault on American freedom.
RI government is out of control.
We have the freedom to move out of this state,
RI state of delusion. |
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1/5/2020 |
Donald P |
Galamaga |
Retired |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
With a state that has deliberately placed itself in the current position as the most costly energy rates and related state taxes (as the state and cities and towns are high energy consumers) this... read more With a state that has deliberately placed itself in the current position as the most costly energy rates and related state taxes (as the state and cities and towns are high energy consumers) this proposal is both absurd but another step to further repress the economy of Rhode Island and its citizens and retirees. Our population decline demonstrates that clearly. Mismanagement of the state pension fund has precipitated an ill conceived freeze of paid for COLA's to those already retired precipitating a decline a normal sources of modest income to the state economy while union cronies of the governor got consecutive pay raises for four years from the General fund that was not financed. What is going on in this poorly managed state? Political ambition and throwing the most vulnerable under the bus. Tell the General Assembly that the Point Judith fund purchase by the state pension fund should be cancelled immediately on the grounds that such commitments can be cancelled fro a "reasonable public purposes" and mandate the state sports betting contract be rebid competitively to stop financing crony jobs while the state fails its fiduciary obligation to balance its budget and finance its pension fund to long term retirees, all from the proceeds of this sports betting venture. The TCI nonsense must be eliminated now as membership in the regional group that came up with this foolishness has never redounded to the benefit of RI. We need a new pipeline of natural gas to get cheap Marcellus Shale gas and tell Governor Cuomo that NY is restraining trade to access the shale gas, costing RI billions of annual dollars every year, preventing the state from becoming a port to export this gas also overseas. This proposal feed the anachronistic and radical environmental thinking the Governor and some members of the General Assembly are advancing. Stop this travesty now. Revive the state economy by rejecting the TCI and adopting the policies suggest herein now. |
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1/6/2020 |
Ned |
Murtha |
independant |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
I oppose the TCI gas tax plan to make gasoline prices so high that I will be forced to drive less, and so that gasoline will “go away.”
I oppose the new TCI policy. I am not... read more I oppose the TCI gas tax plan to make gasoline prices so high that I will be forced to drive less, and so that gasoline will “go away.”
I oppose the new TCI policy. I am not willing to pay major new taxes at the pump, I find that economically unsound and a detriment to all RI residents. I do not think there will be a significant environmental benefit, possibly no benefit at all.
I want to be free to choose the transportation mode that is best for my family and my community. Government should not try to control my behavior with mandates like the TCI Gas Tax. It is a extremely regressive tax, hurts the poor has no effect on the rich, and is huge mistake!
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1/7/2020 |
Mary |
Forcino |
Citizen |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
This tax is a ridiculous fraud, fueled by money grubbing grifters like Gina Fraudmondo an TCI. This tax is a ridiculous fraud, fueled by money grubbing grifters like Gina Fraudmondo an TCI. |
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1/8/2020 |
Joe |
Rachiele |
Tax Payer |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
This tax is yet another unlawful burden on taxpayers. RI does not have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem and instituting a penalty for driving won’t solve that, or your supposed “... read more This tax is yet another unlawful burden on taxpayers. RI does not have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem and instituting a penalty for driving won’t solve that, or your supposed “Climate Change” |
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1/8/2020 |
John |
Gardner |
Taxpayer |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
According to the IPCC5, the costs of limiting global warming to 1.5' exceed the benefits from doing so. That aside, this is just another tax to go towards corrupt politicians and their... read more According to the IPCC5, the costs of limiting global warming to 1.5' exceed the benefits from doing so. That aside, this is just another tax to go towards corrupt politicians and their connected cronies. Enough is enough. |
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1/26/2020 |
John |
Phelan |
independent |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
we are taxed to the max in this state and the waste and corruption is beyond measure! no more phony taxes and cut back on all the state employee jobs that have been added under this governor!... read more we are taxed to the max in this state and the waste and corruption is beyond measure! no more phony taxes and cut back on all the state employee jobs that have been added under this governor! Enough!!!!!!!
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1/26/2020 |
Edith |
Simpkins |
independent |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
All taxes should be voting on by tax payers! The state government (liberals) is not competent enough to handle the financial affairs of the people of the state R.I.!!!! All taxes should be voting on by tax payers! The state government (liberals) is not competent enough to handle the financial affairs of the people of the state R.I.!!!! |
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2/9/2020 |
Russ |
Day |
none |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
Nothing but Political Manipulation, to Brake the country's financial position, impoverish all citizens and control all . Usurping Power is the ONLY thing this is ALL about, to put all of U.S... read more Nothing but Political Manipulation, to Brake the country's financial position, impoverish all citizens and control all . Usurping Power is the ONLY thing this is ALL about, to put all of U.S. under the control of the Fkn UN |
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2/10/2020 |
Carol |
Greenless |
Independent |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
RI is the smallest state with the highest taxes and most corrupt government! We CAN NOT AFFORD to pay more in taxes, higher gas prices. We have the worst public transit system. It barely covers... read more RI is the smallest state with the highest taxes and most corrupt government! We CAN NOT AFFORD to pay more in taxes, higher gas prices. We have the worst public transit system. It barely covers half the state, what about the rural sectors? Enough is enough. Start taking the cars away from city employees that use them for personal use after hours that will save money and fuel! |
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2/12/2020 |
Constance |
Kirk |
Owner-K Electric Inc. |
Warwick |
Rhode Island |
As a Rhode Island business owner and resident I completely disagree with this "tax" as a terrible added financial burden in one the worst business friendly states in the entire country... read more As a Rhode Island business owner and resident I completely disagree with this "tax" as a terrible added financial burden in one the worst business friendly states in the entire country. Additionally, I personally will join and and all organizations I feel will assist me in fighting passage of this burdensome tax. |
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2/22/2020 |
jon |
howland |
citizen |
warwick |
Rhode Island |
TCI needs to close its operations immediately. There is no substance to their fallacious claims. The climate is fine and unaffected by humanity. Therefore, there is no excuse to have socialist... read more TCI needs to close its operations immediately. There is no substance to their fallacious claims. The climate is fine and unaffected by humanity. Therefore, there is no excuse to have socialist groups like TCI to try to rape the rights of We the People from Us. Our fossil fuel rights will not be impinged in any way. Fossil fuels has helped humanity to thrive in an otherwise dangerous environment here on Earth. Any attempt to take this inherent right from Us will be construed as an act of war against humanity.
If you folks want to go without the vast benefits of fossil fuels, then get rid of your clothing and cell phones and go live in a cave if you want. Keep away from my human right to thrive. You have no authority to kill Us off. |
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2/24/2020 |
art |
yatsko |
Voter |
warwick |
Rhode Island |
This is a terrible idea. There is no tax more regressive then one on energy and transportation. Burdening the working poor and the middle class without proof it will work or a truly accurate... read more This is a terrible idea. There is no tax more regressive then one on energy and transportation. Burdening the working poor and the middle class without proof it will work or a truly accurate climate model that proves the goals will work is unconscionable. If the political pressure is so strong that you must "do something " then adopt this proposal but use monopoly money until you have a base line. In a few years scientists should have a working climate model that will prove the whole scheme worthless. Or science could prove me wrong. You might be reluctant to shelve this initiative on my theories but probably not as reluctant as I am to support this on your theories. |
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