RI Center for Freedom Urges Opposition to Proposed Transportation Climate Initiative
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Mike Stenhouse with the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity is urging Rhode Islanders to oppose the proposed Transportation Climate Initiative.
In October 2019, 12 states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia) and the District of Columbia committed to release a draft memorandum of understanding (MOU) by the end of December for a regional policy to clean up and modernize transportation through a cap-and-invest approach.
New Hampshire announced last week it would not take part -- and the remaining 11 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states and District of Columbia that comprise the TCI released a draft MOU outlining the proposed framework of their cap-and-invest program to cut transportation emissions.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“They want to make gasoline so expensive that you’ll be forced to use less of it. This money isn’t going to rebuild infrastructure like normal gas taxes — this would be used to advance a green agenda,” said Stenhouse.
Stenhouse said that the report released by the TCI campaign projects that without the new TCI gas tax, that carbon emissions in America will go down by 19%.
“Most Rhode Islanders want a balanced approach, where there are multiple choices for abundant and affordable energy,” said Stenhouse. “But, green-Grinches in government want to limit your options, and will force you to pay expensive new taxes if you make the wrong choice.”
“The prices for gasoline could soon rise dramatically for your family if the Raimondo administration undercuts the authority of the General Assembly, and moves forward with its plan to sign-on to a new stealth carbon-tax scheme – the TCI Tax… a move that would necessarily increase costs on families and business at the pump, and that also could lead to Constitutional legal challenges,” he said.
Stenhouse urged people to take action by going to rifreedom.org/no-tci-tax.
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