The Republican governor of Vermont and the Democratic governor of Connecticut poured cold water this week on a regional carbon-emissions fee that could increase gasoline prices by 5 to 17 cents a gallon – isolating Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, who supports the idea.
The regional proposal, called the Transportation Climate Initiative, is supposed to consist of states from Maine to Virginia imposing a fee on fuel providers. The revenue from the fee is supposed to pay for improvements to public transportation to try to get people out of their carbon-emitting cars, which some say are contributing significantly to global warming, which they say is bad.
