A $.10 fee is now being added to each gallon of gas, before sales tax, in California. It is a tax, but that isn’t what they are calling it. Instead, the fee is described as an amount paid by gas retailers when distributors load tanker trucks.
So California drivers are being forced to pay a tax on a tax. How soon will other states follow?
“The global warming fee, which is variable and could soar in the future, added about a dime this week,” Dan McSwain of UT San Diego said. “Then the state adds 2.25% of the full retail price – including those other fees and taxes – while city and county sales taxes add more (0.5% in most of San Diego County).”
Many drivers haven’t noticed the increase yet due to the plummeting gas prices, but they will eventually because the $0.10 per gallon fee is not a set price – it’s determined by California’s “cap-and-trade” market in which various industries trade their permits covering specific amounts of emissions, the total of which is capped by the state.
In other words, the “global warming” fee can go up.
“In August, California’s legislative analyst estimated that, by 2020, retail prices were likely to rise between 13 cents and 20 cents a gallon because of cap-and-trade,” McSwain added. “But the analyst, Mac Taylor, warned that increases could exceed 50 cents in some cases.”
“And an oil-industry group warned the costs could spike to 76 cents, based on state figures.”
This is intentional; the “cap-and-trade” system was designed to raise gas prices and energy costs using artificial scarcity created through the hoax of man-made “global warming.”
“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” President Obamatold reporters in 2008. “Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money.”
“They will pass that money on to consumers.”
That’s c**p. Where does the fee go? Global Cooling?
Global warming is one of the biggest hoaxes ever slapped on citizens ! Ask who is getting the money???????????? Its a scam and it’s time people who don’t know shut up about it and those who do speak out!!!!!!!
Wonder how that bunch of “tree huggers” in California like where their liberal ideas have taken them now.
sounds like a c**p fee
A tax is a tax, regardless of it’s label!!
Idiots the entire solar system is warming up, it isn’t just earth..
Will the last normal person to leave California, please bring the flag.
No it is not Michael Stevens….it is cooling. Good try tho…idiot!!!
Please don’t tell gov. Cuomo from N.Y.
Global Warming/Climate change is a LIE!! Just a few months ago, the Weather Channel was interviewed by their TOP Meteorologist who has been with them for some 60 YEARS and he stated, irrevocably that this could NOT be FARTHER from the TRUTH!! LIARS, the lot of them, and they need to be held accountable.