Transportation and Climate Initiative

Under t c i, increased costs to fuel suppliers would lead to increased gas prices. This made the programme a whole lot more of a political hot potato. Even though t c i was only predicted to increase gas prices by between five to 70 cents per gallon, state governors were hesitant to raise the price of gas. The collapse of political will around the transportation and climate initiative seems inevitable. Why didn't leaders see this coming? When we spoke to david roberts in episode six last season, he made the case that economy wide carbon pricing was doomed by its impact on gas prices. He suggested implementing carbon pricing sector by sector to get around that problem and avoid the transportation sector. You do the