TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

I believe this initiative does have some merit but unfortunately the side effects will impact everyone in the state. I look at California's current situation with $5 + gas prices which doesn't just effect business but private citizens as well. This is another detrimental effect on our economy costing all businesses to suffer and subsequently leave Maine. Small business can't afford additional costs to operate and end up passing it on to their customers or going out of business. Our rural state is not a good fit for this kind of plan.

I do not support our governor in joining this coalition. She didnt get the approval of her state and many of us here dont believe she would be acting in our best interests to initiate more costs for us when we are already struggling with the costs of heating our homes and commuting to and from work.she has spent enough of our hard earned money for her term!
At a time when conflicting facts are coming out about climate change, we need to take a closer look before spending our money on it when any significant improvements to come from this is negligible.

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.

California's LCFS program has met with tremendous success. Our region's proposed TCI program is inferior in design to that of the LCFS program in that ours requires a central organization to allocate collected funds for investment. This aspect of the program will undoubtedly become contentious and likely achieve sub-optimal results. If our region is going to go through the difficult undertaking of a coordinated GHG reduction program, let's merely copy the proven model from California!

This is something Maine can not afford. Our cost of living vs income is extremely unbalanced, especially in coastal towns. Our property taxes are going up regularly, while our property values remain stagnant. Mainers cannot afford to fund this or any other programs until our economy improves. This will cripple us as prices for everything will rise as a result. This needs to be reconsidered for Maine.

For most Mainers we depend on the forestry industry, we have to travel to work, not just a 5 minute drive, more like an hour plus. My wife has to drive her and our son for appointments over an hour and 4 hours away. We are a 1 income family because my wife is disabled. For us to get any decent health care we have to go way out of town..

I am very concerned over the TCIs goal of rationing fuel through auctions. This will artificialy drive up fuel costs for the most vulnerable in the state. We have no control over these fuel rations yet what happens when we have an unusually cold winter and lets say with long term power outages. Then what, we pay the piper. What happens when the fuel carbon allowance is exceeded due to out of state visitors that we forget to factor in to the equation. Killington World Cup attracts thousands of SUVs. In the seventies, I was taught personal responsibility, and to spread that message. Now we teach our children that ineffective protesting is the only way forward. Teach your children how to be a custodian of the planet and stay out of my life. Climate change=corporate greed, not me and my family trying to survive on less and less. Take away everyones money and theyll quit polluting the planet. Start with Leo and Al?