TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Please support Maine in developing low carbon transportation. Primarily, I believe we need increased passenger trains and all electric buses and cars. I fear that without rapid improvement in this and many other areas, we will face a climate emergency within 10 or 20 years, and our children's lives will be terribly harmed. Nothing is more important than this.

This is a terrible initiative and will adversely affect the lives of all residents of states that adopt this initiative. It will drive up costs for goods transported by trucking and the general population that must travel for work,doctor appointments, grocery shopping, etc. All expenses that rural residents can not afford due to long distance travel to anywhere . This CANNOT be adopted.

It's imperative that America's states and nation need to begin the development of far more environmentally responsible transportation alternatives. America is clearly falling far behind many other similar industrialized nations in the world in this respect; that's especially true for long-haul mass transit. America's high-speed rail system is archaic compared to that of most countries in Europe and Asia. Americans should not be flying between cities that are 1,000 miles or so distant from each other. Given all the delays associated with flying, high speed rail would likely get New Yorkers to Chicago sooner by rail than flying and potentially at much less cost and environmental impact. And like Europe, America should be creating cities that are essentially traffic free. And all this should be accomplished utilizing non fossil fuel burning vehicles as any efforts at improving our nation is doomed in the long term if something isn't done soon to reverse the impacts of global warming. And with respect to Global Warming, I question whether scientists are considering the fact that by humans simply wrapping the world in black asphalt roads and parking lots which hold and retain heat since the early 1900s; along with having built tens of thousands of cities with large buildings which also retain heat; all of which has made it harder for earth to return to the latent overnight temperatures of pre industria- age values, isn't also contributing to global warming; and that something needs to be done soon to reduce the heat retaining effects of our roads, bridges, large buildings and other structures whose retained heat has served to gradually increase earth's daytime temperatures because the latent temperatures in the morning have gradually in and of themselves been rising. It just seems common sense that if we started with an essentially prestine world almost devoid of large buildings and roads at the end of the 1800s and since then have added millions of heat retaining structures (roads, bridges, buildings, etc) not to mention heat spewing factories, large ocean liners, etc., that just these structures and other heat retaining/spewing objects that their presence alone would gradually cause the atmosphere's latent temperature to rise over time - forgetting all about the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The TCI is a tax and needs to have legislative, rather than administrative approval.
This is particularly ill-advised at a time when we are heading into the New England Winter Season.
This is not the time to add a new gas tax.
There's plenty of gas tax already.

Use the money we already collect each year wisely. No taxation without representation.

You’re not fooling anyone. This is a government “fee” that is going to be passed onto consumers so call it what it is, a TAX.

The Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) proposal is a backdoor attempt to raise the gas tax that consumers will have to pay for at the pump. If you increase the gas tax literally every consumable item me and my family use will go up in price. We already have one of the highest costs of living in the country. Enough is enough! I say NO to TCI! Taxes are already too high in the Commonwealth-there is no need for more or higher taxes. Run things more efficiently instead of raising taxes!

I support all plans to reduce and eliminate all forms of toxic pollution that enter the air we breathe and the water we drinki. To me it is an issue not of climate change but the protection of the air we breathe and the water we drink and that trumps all issues involved. It is a fact that pollution of the air and water causes many illnesses and in too many cases death. so everything we can to eliminate all forms of pollution to our water and air