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.”
And now you know the truth about global warming, oh excuse me, climate change.
They will not stop until we are all homeless!
colder than a witch’s t*t out here…you’ve been had
Califoria will save the world by taxing its self into a wasteland
People who are of voting age and do vote, do not even know what they are or are not voting for….people do not pay attention, so you end up with stupid taxes that are not even required…
Calif. USED to be a state that did not allow the Federal Govt to tell them what to do….They were the first to repeal the Helmet Law for bikers! They would not reduce their speed limit. Since Democrats have ruled there they have become the Nanzie Panzies of America!!!!!! They have become a state of people afraid of EVERYTHING controlled by Liberal Elitists! WAKE UP CALIFORNIA!!!!!!!!
Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) and the Democrats which control the state government strike again. They can’t spend the money they don’t have fast enough, so they have to figure a way to get billions more to give away to people who don’t need or deserve it…so glad I left there and no longer have to pay their excessive fees and taxes…
I hope the people in Calif. fire the politicians that were responsible for this tax when they run for re-election. Everyone needs to wake up and kick the politicians out when they do something the people don’t like. The people should show the politicians that they are the boss.
Australia REPEALS carbon tax . .
http://www.wsj.com/articles/australia-repeals-carbon-tax-1405560964
This is how the govt pays for all the free stuff they are handing out. taxes, fees, whatever else they can come up with to take from one and give to another.