TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

we are last place in the country to run a small business . this is another nail in the coffin of all business . we have the highest electric cost . we have some of the highest property taxes , as well as car taxes . have you taken the time to notice that no new companies are coming to ri . have you notice that we are about to lose a house rep because so many people are leaving ri . 10 1/2 billion budget for a state this small ? our governor has nothing to loose . she will be gone not soon enough and we will be left we the damage she has done to our great state . as a business owner I am opposed to this tax because nothing is made in ri and every thing has to be brought into ri from out of state . add this tax as well as the truck and car road tax and the end result is that business looses again . how many more business have to go belly up or leave ri before our legislators understand that you are taxing us out of existence.

I am newly settled in Massachusetts and both my husband and I support creative, robust activism on behalf of the climate. To that end, we will not hesitate to "put our money where our mouth is." If the cost of preserving this amazing planet is a few more pennies out of our paychecks, then I will be the first to volunteer those funds. Although I have come to realize that making changes to protect the climate cannot rest solely on government as a mechanism (and must rest more squarely on my own shoulders) I nonetheless, support all initiatives whose goal is to preserve and protect our natural world. We only have one place to call home and I want to see us all become better stewards of this incredible planet - For my children, for your children and their children. There will be no absolution for our generation if we get it wrong. We must act now.

Mills, along with any democrat will do anything in their power to get more power for their party and more money out of the people. They are corrupt and incompetent and do not care about productive policy - they care about PROFITABLE policy. That is why Mills is pushing the CMP corridor; to the horror of the entire state she is supposed to be running. She hasn't paid her inaugural bills yet, and is a known cocaine addict. How did this joke get elected? I have no doubt she would love to put multiple taxes on gasoline, which will absolutely KILL Maines young people and working class, both of which are leaving the state already for places that pay better money and don't have such a ridiculous tax burden. You can't have a mailbox in Maine without $200 a year in property taxes. Some states out west and in central America pay less than us for a hundred acres or more of land. The only way to go carbon neutral is to catapult yourself into the sun without using fossil fuels (good luck building that device) Short of that, you ARE NOT carbon neutral. These ridiculous proposals will waste our entire budget to generate 15% of our power via "renewable" sources - and half the country will die of starvation if we follow just any one of their stupid goals like not eating meat, or not using any fossil fuels. The entire society, and all of civilization will collapse if these idiots are actually given the green light on their lofty, moronic, short sighted goals. Liberals suffer from extreme cognitive dissonance, nirvana fallacys and rhetoric. Climate alarmism is not based on actual science, data, logic, theory or evidence. Transportation is not even man kinds largest contributing factor in regard to greenhouse gas emissions, farm animals are. This will also do NOTHING to alleviate the need for fossil fuels by our state or culture, it just puts more money in government pockets taken from citizens and businesses. This gesture is virtue signaling at it's heart- doing NOTHING to fix a problem while posturing to appear virtuous while in reality just exacerbating the problem or spending all of your effort on appearing to be a good samaritan instead of working on the problem. Care to guess how much time and effort Mills is spending on developing vertical farming? nuclear or thorium power? new cleaner fertilizers pesticides herbicides and fungicides? Improving solar power? None, zero - zilch - nada. These people do not work for solutions, they do not WANT or CARE about solutions, they want to preach about a problem; real or imagined, to increase their personal wealth and power. Climate alarmism is cyclical like doomsday prophecy. Al Gore said the ice caps would be melted and polar bears would be extinct by now. Earths climate and temperature has never been linear or static and it probably never will be. We have solar minimums and maximums, ice ages, and geography that essentially creates a climate cycle by itself. To think humans can control the climate other than avoiding things that do catastrophic damage is the height of arrogance ignorance and armchair activism. If you want to have a cleaner Earth and you aren't talking about China, India, and Africa, as well as nuclear or thorium power you are either stupid manipulating people with appeals to fear or full of shit.

I am 40 years old and have been been monitoring environmental issues for many years. The last few years I went back to college to get my masters degree in environmental sustainability. I have researched and understand the need for clean transportation. My thesis for my degree was an analysis of fleet vehicles in NYC and the impact to the State and City GHG emission goals. Long story short, just replacing all the city buses would reduce diesel emissions over 20% for NYC and 8% for NY State. And because truck/bus traffic is more prevalent in lower income areas, which also has more residents of color. The rates of respiratory issues for young children in these areas is higher than areas with lower bus/truck traffic. Clean transportation is more than just an environmental issue, it is also a social and economic issue.

Only a public referendum supporting this policy and no new taxes would gain my support!

An added gas tax will only further burden the citizens of Rhode Island as we are a rural state with no availability to statewide mass transportation and being a one city state like Providence requires people to drive there to receive various services, it's bad enough now! The Democrats have been controlling Rhode Island for years and have ruined what could be a paradise and this is just one more knife in the back from the government and one more TAX we get hit with and the idiots in the legislature will squander the money like they always do!!!!!!!!

Climate change has been going on since the existence of earth. Sometimes climate change is in the cooling direction to generate an Ice Age. Sometimes it heats up to boil everything off the planet. Either of these events is a restart for fauna and flora on the planet. We have been in the warming phase since the last ice age. Unless you know how to stop this process, humans have been around for an almost immeasurably small part, you are on an exercise in futility and I don't want spend resources that will not help.