TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

I believe that all states contemplating any gas tax increase must consider all the cost increases that would be generated. Such as shipping,gas fuel delivery,home heating services,mail,air travel,all service parts and most important grocery price increases. The states should inform the public that it is not necessary to preheat your vehicle prior to driving. Your vehicle will warm up in five to ten minutes faster at a normal speed. The senior citizens who are on a very strict budget will be effected the most, we do not get automatic increase on our retirement, as many of the politicians do. The public is sick and tired for being taken advantage of by the politicians who's salary is paid for by the citizen that elect them in the first place. Thank you, Bill

RI Energy CZAR failed us! Yes, an inferior solution equates to an inferior product. Electric vehicles remain a wet dream given a flawed electricity affordability & availability. The back door carbon Tax is a niggardly end run lacking in reality.
The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why and or how anybody ever thought they could? Never the less RI like Germany still embraces an already failed in Europe wind & solar industrial complex GREEN SUICIDE. TODAY'S Snow storm & Polar Vortex weather events evening reading material, before the lights go out, for RI elected officials! Given the US Congress budget reflects a beginning for a already failed in Europe flawed wind and solar industrial complex subsidies phaseout - a much better understanding for all the components & limitations of wind & solar generated electricity is mandatory! The rational solution can be found!
Many Researchers have been underestimating the true cost and utility of wind and solar generated electricity!
This question comes up in many types of evaluations, including Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI), Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), and Energy Payback Period (EPP).
Conclusions;
a) Several adjustments need to be made to make wind and solar EROIs comparable to fossil fuels or generation IV Nuclear fission. The biggest of these is adjusting to remove intermittency (strength of wind & solar is every changing even beyond the day night cycle)..
b) Back of the envelope estimates would suggest that if the adjustments are made EROIs for Wind & Solar are likely less than 1.0 hence not a feasible solutions especially when compared to lower cost & predictable alternatives! Perhaps, The very BIG IF an EROI as low as 3:1 might be useful, then there is a possibility that some wind energy would be helpful, especially if a particular wind location has a very high capacity factor (can generate electricity a large share of the time), and IF both hostile environment induced rapid equipment attrition & complex under water transmission line hubs resultant companion pricing problems can be handled adequately. The EROI of solar PV would probably still be too low in most applications, especially in the northern US locations.
c) EROI can be a starting point for analysis, just as for example in preliminary medical models et al. However it is necessary, especially where a) energy acquisition b) energy conversion to power & c) power - electricity distribution, to look at real world outcomes. Yes, in this case actual outcomes can be very different than claims by an equipment vendor or an aligned an over sold political cult having unknowingly drank the green Kool-Aid.
In any event, we need to be examining situations more closely, instead of simply assuming that hidden subsidies now buried in your electricity Bills & state + federal tax bills can be counted on indefinitely. Today the US Congress is looking at retiring W&S subsidies after 20 + years of tax & rate payer monies squandered !