TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

The attached comments on behalf of 172 organizations from across the 13 TCI jurisdictions state our support for an ambitious and equitable TCI program that includes strong safeguards and guarantees for overburdened and underserved communities.

This initiative has increased taxes written all over it. If one switches to hybrid and electric vehicles, where do the batteries get charged? If fossil fuel is to be replaced, there is not enough wind, solar and hydro to replace it, even in 30 years. Nuclear energy needs to be revisited. I have read where there is little if any wasted uranium with the new technology and water cooling has also changed. Why isn't nuclear power being discussed as an energy source? This initiative is very socialistic and makes government bigger and more costly. People that live in rural areas do not need or require all the transportation services of the city. Many are willing to make the services trade off for a rural lifestyle. Careful study of the costs and benefits of this proposal are called for. Thank you.

I support this general concept because I am worried that the current Amtrak and other current train transportation systems are located too close to the coast and will be subjected to increasing damage as sea levels rise and storm intensities increase, as well as due to aging. The east coast needs inland transportation networks that are electricity based. Large wind turbine arrays off shore are being planned and can provide plenty of clean renewable electricity for buses and vans and trains that can recharge at night and/ or during the day when excess electricity is being generated. This can reduce cost and pollution and provide new manufacturing and installation jobs as all this new infrastructure is being built and expanded over the next several decades. Cement used for (eg platfoms for stations and turbines) could be made by new methods that cut carbon dioxide emissions.Raising gasoline and fossil fuel taxes could help provide revenues and discourage the use of private vehicles using fossil fuels. As you plan think about these possibilities and other new ways to cut costs and cut emissions.

A Commission with no one to be held accountable to? Increased taxes at any rate they feel is appropriate? Increased costs to all things "fossil," whether personally used or consumed by delivery to home or store? And at what benefit? Barely any...if any at all. This is, plain and simple, a way for an aggressive, out-of-control fear lobby to fund itself in the form of billions of dollars stolen from those already taxed beyond their means. It is another "feel good, do nothing" ploy, plain and simple. NO! NO!! NO!!!

Let call it what it is, a TAX. This program will be bureaucracy, managed by non-elected officials that will not be accountable once put in place. Any changes to evolve the program in the future will be done at their discretion, not for the general commuters needs. I'm all for a clean energy future but want to have a say in how it evolves from what we learn along the way. Only special influence groups will have their input heard, it will be a system ripe for corruption. We need to have a say in our transportation future, we do not want un-elected bureaucrats running this that do not have accountability to the general citizen class!!!! Keep in mind once this scheme is in place they will become greedy and go after heating fuels before you know it!

To whom it may concern,
Attached are comments on behalf of Consumer Energy Alliance concerning the Draft MOU of the Transportation Climate Initiative. We appreciate the opportunity to provide our feedback.

Since the federal government under Trump and McConnell refuse to do anything, the responsibility falls to governors, mayors and conscientious industries to take the lead. Please making Kansas a leading state reducing transportation emissions. A few suggestions are: investing in public transportation, walking paths, and biking lanes.
Since Kansas is also a large agricultural presence, the state must be proactive in sustainable farming practices and limiting agricultural irrigation systems.