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.”
So when there’s a period of global COOLING — like there is — do you get a rebate?
Didn’t think so.
Every cent they can squeeze out of you. Got to pay those teachers and their pentions.
f… ing retards!
And yet somehow, with ALL of the many, many taxes they levy, CA is still operating at a huge deficit. Can anyone else say “manage your funds better”? How about if all of the “concerned” Hollywood elitists be charged the tax since they are the ones jetting around in their limousines and SUVs and private planes!!
Just a Beginning of the INSANITY to come!!!!!
WTF
Tax… fee… eitherway, it’s theft.
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A Pawlenty scam!
On a FB friend’s page, he replies:
The Sea levels have been rising for the last 30,000 years.
I reply:
“What you think you know, may not be so. In an inconvenient truth, Al Gore says sea levels will rise 20 feet – maybe in a thousand years (IPPC – from the same UN Panel that pushed Global Warming, but had to change to “Climate Change” after 18 years of Global Cooling, but not before claiming Global Warming was unstoppable, but 18 years of Global Cooling disproved that earlier theory of the IPPC), but in a hundred years, they might rise 7-24 inches, not 20 feet . . .” – John Stossel – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRnpuRPfQxU&feature=share&list=PLE7982D330411C89C
In 100 years the IPPC says because of “Global Warming” before they changed the name to “Climate Change” the oceans of the world might rise 7-24 inches – and in thousands of years 20 feet – right now I’m not worried, since their Global Warming theory failed because of 18 years of Global Cooling and their changing their game and name to “Climate Change”