TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

We need TCI in CT! It will re-invest funds to help out rural communities as well as urban communities.

Our outdated transportation system is Maine’s largest source of climate pollution—and it doesn’t even meet the needs of Maine people.
Maine people deserve clean, modern, affordable transportation options that deliver economic, health, and climate benefits to local communities.
It makes sense for Maine to work with neighboring states through TCI’s bipartisan, proven policy model.

I support this measure as a way to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. I want to see my state progress toward green energy and away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible. As a millennial, my generation will be left to deal with past generations' inaction. Climate change is happening, whether we believe in it or not; the time to act against it is absolutely now.

On behalf of the signatory companies, please find the attached statement of support for, and expression of perspectives on the Transportation Climate Initiative’s efforts to develop a cap-and-invest policy for transportation.

Yes--bring it on! Non-polluting public transportation. We must do something everyday, however small, to change our climate-ruining habits. We must move away from fossil fuels and petrochemicals. Supporting the TCI is a necessary step in the right direction.

This will have a disastrous effect on Mainers, especially those who are already struggling to pay for gas and heat their homes. Mainers don’t have the option to take a bus or hop on the subway. This will also increase the costs of transporting food into the state and commercial products out of the state. STOP. STOP THIS MADNESS.

The TCI is designed to force a massive change on American standard of living under the phony guise of climate change. It's an illegal tax on Americans to force them to give up cars. And without cars, they'll be forced to live in crowded urban cities in very small quarters due to the lack of supply and overregulations. This is part of the UN's Agenda 2030 where “governments, international organizations, the business sector and other non-state actors and individuals must contribute to changing unsustainable consumption and production patterns … to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production.” And how to interpret that? Well, we have this quote from the late billionaire Maurice Strong, an UN environmental guru. “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class … involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and ‘convenience’ foods, ownership of motor vehicles, numerous electrical appliances, home and workplace air-conditioning ... expensive suburban housing … are not sustainable.” And there you have it, the real reason why these initiatives are being implemented.

Local govts have devolved into ideological idiocracies, incapable of coherent, logical planning. Instead of destroying the middle class, how about finally tackling pension reform, shrinking govt, eliminating waste and fraud to find money to spend on infrastruture projects? Massachusetts is spending millions on illegal immigrants, too, money that could be used for far better purposes. We reject any effort to impoverish us to suit the globalists' agenda.

We need a reduction of carbon in transportation as well as better public transportation mass transit to assist in this as well to get a hanlde on Global Climate change.

Please see the attached comments from Exelon Corporation and Public Service Enterprise Group.