TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Transportation is the number one source of climate pollution in the United States. I support the Transportation and Climate Initiative. This transportation plan must be bold enough to cut harmful transportation pollution at the scale needed to avert the climate crisis. We need a plan that holds large transportation polluters accountable for the pollution they create and invests in clean transportation solutions including:
More public transit and electric vehicle infrastructure in rural areas
Expansion of commuter rail, electric vehicles, and streets in the suburbs that are safe, walkable, and bikeable
Sustainable and equitable housing near transit and electric bus fleets in urban communities.

Please do NOT increase taxes on gas and disuse fuel!! Pa has highest taxes and killing transportation in this state!!!

We need clean transportation immediately. What we started in the 1970s should have been finished long before now. We need to build and sell electric vehicles to replace combustion engine buses, trucks and cars. I purchased an all-electric car, the Volkswagon eGolf and paid $20,000 for it after rebates. Not everyone can afford to buy a new car, however, even if it is only $20,000, so the government needs to give incentives to people so that they can afford them. Cities and towns across the country need to replace their old buses and city vehicles to electric vehicles. Companies that use trucks need to purchase electric trucks.

First we need to implement a carbon fee and dividend program that will tax any company that extracts fossil fuels based on the ton of greenhouse gases the extracted fuels will emit when burned. Once the tax is collected by the government, the government will rebate all of that money back to every American household in the form of a dividend check. To incentivize other countries to reduce their carbon footprint, a border tax should be imposed on imports again based on the ton of greenhouse gases that were emitted to produce that product. Once a carbon fee and dividend law is enacted, innovation will be unleashed and manufacturers of electric vehicles will flood the market with them and their prices will decrease.

There is no time to waste on this.

Since transportation auses the most greenhouse gas emissions of any of the economic sectos, it only makes common sense to limit that as TCI will do. I am heartily in favor of TCI.

I'm not sure what to do about this. I'm definitely committed to reducing carbon emissions, but I'm also not in a financial position to run out and buy an electric car.

I am saddened by another scheme to extract more tax money from an already overburdened citizenry. I believe programs like this are more successful at increasing the size and scope of government than they are at alleviating any potential climate change issues. I see taxpayers as the victims of opportunistic politicians and bureaucrats.

I believe the proposed TCI is a useful starting point for action on carbon reduction but not nearly aggressive enough. To actually effect a critical reduction in VMT the "price at the pump" needs to start higher with assurances it will go even higher.
There should be explicit measures to address the inequitable hardship on low-income and rural households using some portion of the auction income to cushion this inequity. I hope Pennsylvania will join in this regional effort.

We just purchased an electric car and see the need for further investment in fast charging stations. We also live in an area in which the public transportation system is basically set up for the commuting workers in and out of Hartford, but is very inconvenient for evenings and weekends and those folks who work a non-9-5 schedule. If we as a nation are to move ahead with clean methods of transport, we need to invest in systems that people can use as an alternative to driving .
thank you.

I urge you to move toward investment in mass transit and electric car infrastructure. It is imperative that we reduce carbon emissions in that climate change is moving rapidly upon us, as evidenced by the accelerated melting of the polar ice caps. This will contribute to stronger storms , hurricanes, flooding and droughts. I fear a feedback loop of carbon and methane releases from the tundra region, which will further accelerate climate chaos.
Reducing carbon emissions from cars could help alot