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.”
Same thing as the ILLEGAL fire suppression fee!!
The more they talk about global warming the colder it gets!
Glad I don’t live there…. they are all clue less sheeple.
global warmig dosent nessacarly mean the whole world to be set i fire its a climite shift that will shift the waters like we see in alaska wich cools the waters but not every where will get warmer think a glass of ice waater you drop the iss in does it get deristicly coldder rate away… no the ice and the water go through energy exchange causing ice to melt causeing the waters tog et colder for a period of time as it would seem but what happens to water once ice is gone the warming and effects of the room or solar system no longer have as much restance causing it to warm up now it cant be proved yet but the evidence points more this way then oh nahh its not real!!!
Those Californians will fall for slap anything … Illegals … sure! Pelosi … sure! … Weather around the globe … sure! Give me another tax but call it a fee … sure! Freakin idiots!
How convenient that they introduce this “fee” while prices are down! Just one more sneaky deception. They know there will not be as much pushback on the matter. Shell game.
So they are taxing the air? or the globe? something that doesnt belong to them? wtf
Pathetic,shame on california for doing so…Their taking advantage of the lower prices I guess,figures you all out in california aren’t paying enough as is ..
pretty funny (and stupid) since global warming is NOT happening
They need to take that to court!