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.”
This is increadible and people vote those people in so,??STUPIT………….
I would like to see a debate to first prove that global warming exists! Remeber when most scientists thought the world was flat?
Double dipping crooks
Sounds like California to me. But, it is the way the liberals want it.
Here in Pittsburgh, Pa. we have a mediocre, not great public mass transit system. During “prime time” when everyone is going to work or going home from work there is a “surcharge” added. And, rather than building another bridge from downtown to the North Shore a tunnel was cut under the Allegheny River, less than a mile, which went over budget by Millions.
As they say, “A rose by any other name is still a rose.”
They won’t say or do anything about…..sheep.
Cap and Trade – another bright idea from the right wing Heritage Foundation…. just like the Individual Mandate. Yes, really – look it up.
A majority of the left coast loonies probably don’t know the difference. Hopefully someone with a brain will sue the govt.
Time to let California go, we can’t fix stupid.