TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Dear Governor Mills,
The citizens of the state of Maine do not need another tax because our government chooses not to live within its means.
We are not your personal piggy banks wallet or savings account.
We are a big state and travel is part of our life making it hard to travel within our own state only hurts us as Citizens please do not raise the gas tax thank you Lou galgano

Attached, please find a letter congratulating Gov. Baker and his administration on their contributions to the TCI policy framework and the development process.

Attached, please find a letter congratulating Gov. Murphy and his administration on their contributions to the TCI policy framework and the development process.

Attached, please find a letter congratulating Gov. Raimondo and her administration on their contributions to the TCI policy framework and the development process.

Attached, please find a letter congratulating Gov. Scott and his administration on their contributions to the TCI policy framework and the development process.

The Transport Hartford Academy has been sharing a statewide survey on the topic of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector with those that live and/or work in Connecticut. The survey began on Oct 1st and will close on Oct 29th. The survey is being shared well beyond the network of environmental advocates. For example, AAA will be sharing the survey with Connecticut members. The survey has also been shared widely across city and town social media discussion groups. The survey includes home and work zip code information, and intentional outreach is being focused on areas of the state that do not have many responses. The survey currently underrepresents low-income, younger age groups, and people of color relative to their share of the state’s demographic. Intentional outreach is being focused on those groups and their responses could be considered separately to home in on equity issues.

Halfway through the survey, the results are quite interesting. There are clear preferences in Connecticut for which TCI revenue investments and complementary policies have the most support. Here are a few overall responses pulled from a 10/15 snapshot  65% Strongly Support and 18% Support a TCI cap-and-invest program in Connecticut. There was also a super-majority of support for dedicating a percentage of TCI revenue to overburdened and underserved communities and environmental justice projects.

Connecticut Survey Link – www.tinyurl.com/tci19survey

Live, Snapshot of Survey Results (these results update automatically until the survey closes on Oct 29th)
- Demographics, awareness, and support of TCI – https://centerlatino.wufoo.com/reports/transportation-climate-initiative-report-1/
- Support for potential TCI investments - https://centerlatino.wufoo.com/reports/transportation-climate-initiative-report-2/
- Support for potential complementary policies - https://centerlatino.wufoo.com/reports/transportation-climate-initiative-report-3/
- Survey comments on revenue investment and complementary policies - https://centerlatino.wufoo.com/reports/transportation-climate-initiative-report-4/

We believe strongly that these survey results (after the survey closes on Oct 29th) should be used to help shape Connecticut's approach to a politically viable and publicly supported state framework to the Transportation Climate Initiative. If similar or identical surveys were delivered in partner states, their results could be combined to set the most successful regional framework for TCI and the complementary policies.

Beyond the information gathered from the survey, sharing the survey widely across the state has a civic engagement and educational benefit. In the 10/15 snapshot 50% of respondents knew nothing at all about the Transportation Climate Initiative. 40% or respondents didn't know that the transportation sector was the state (and the region's) largest contributor to emissions.

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..

I am very concerned over the TCIs goal of rationing fuel through auctions. This will artificialy drive up fuel costs for the most vulnerable in the state. We have no control over these fuel rations yet what happens when we have an unusually cold winter and lets say with long term power outages. Then what, we pay the piper. What happens when the fuel carbon allowance is exceeded due to out of state visitors that we forget to factor in to the equation. Killington World Cup attracts thousands of SUVs. In the seventies, I was taught personal responsibility, and to spread that message. Now we teach our children that ineffective protesting is the only way forward. Teach your children how to be a custodian of the planet and stay out of my life. Climate change=corporate greed, not me and my family trying to survive on less and less. Take away everyones money and theyll quit polluting the planet. Start with Leo and Al?