TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

In so much as transportation is responsible for our greatest load of CO2 into the greenhouse gas system, this seems like a no brainer.
Please support his well thought out plan.

TCI is the most important thing to happen in New England for a long time. There is a great of talk and admissions about emissions, (nice turn of phrase, don't you think?) but actually tempering the huge carbon imprint that transportation represents has yet to be tackled. TCI is our starting point and the fear and reality of rising gas prices is a small price to pay to get this transition, upon which our survival rests, started.

Commit to Design and implement a plan for low carbon transportation plan to be implemented within one year after approval

PLEASE, Governor Scott, join the Transportation and climate initiative. First of all, it addresses the main problem our generation must solve for our descendants and the world. We should be willing to spend big to solve it, but I believe that this particular initiative will actually pay for itself, that the structure of TCI will return any increase in fuel prices back to all of us ten-fold – through initiatives that promote low emitting transportation and by helping low income Vermonters – just as RGGI has done. So you need not fear it will damage Vermont's economy. In fact, NOT solving our climate crisis would eventually ruin it entirely.

The transportation sector is responsible for about 40% of our greenhouse gas emissions. This must end. Major improvements in mass transit, an ongoing building of bicycle infrastructure, and the electrification of the remained of the sector are all essential to nothing less than survival. TCI is taking the long view that a cap and trade approach will help accomplish this end. Frankly, only draconian measures, at this point, will bring down our carbon input, but this is a good start. Please back this legislation.

Transportation and heating represent the bulk of Vermont’s carbon emissions. To reduce our use of fossil fuels most economists say we need a steadily rising carbon emissions fee (with revenue returned to households). Technology exists now that will allow us to electrify almost all our energy use, including transportation, heating, farming and industry. Most of Vermont”s electricity is already created from wind, water, and solar (and a little bit of cow power). A price signal plus additional incentives will encourage people to make a quick transition to an all-electric, all-renewables world.

I hope this response is taken seriously - i am not just a propane company owner. i am a Vermont tax payer who has NO interest in being forced into an electric vehicle and that is what this is designed to do. I also have no interest in a heat pump home in New England. I have already seen (and my company has worked on) too many frozen pipes in homes with heat pumps!! This is yet just another freedom being taken away Because someone somewhere has decided this is the only way to save the planet! or is it? i am old enough to remember the ozone layer being destroyed and we were all going to burn up if we didn't do something right away. now these same scientists are back with yet another scare. i'm not saying don't be good stewards of what we have but where is the common sense and balance??
i'm a little company and don't have the power of the environmental lobby groups and electric companies but i will fight this until i am forced out of the state i was born and raised in by people who have just come here to take over!!
don't even get me started on the fact nobody will be able to afford higher taxes - but then, as I've already stated, i guess that's the plan - right:(

We as inhabitants of this earth must act as one people to stop the damage being done to the environment. I have been an environmentalist my whole life and am extremely saddened by the lack of understanding of the dire situation we are in and lack of willingness to work toward correcting things. It will not be easy but it will be rewarding to see the environment begin to be restored and know that the future generations will be safer. Please do your part in this need to change our ways. All of us must do what we can. Thank you.

I am very concerned with our childrens future with warming from the burning of fossil fuels. A price on carbon pollution is what we need. Since a great percentage of carbon pollution comes from the transportation sector, something has to change. Please take the actions recommended in TCI. Thanks, Judy HInch