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.”
The idiots bring this c**p on themselves.
The real reason for the so called “crisis” to make money
I want to institute a poitician tax and it keeps increasing the longer the tenure! Being as the majority are rich when they run to “serve” their public they should be doing it on their dime and not mine and that also goes for benefits they should pay out of pocket for all their gold plated everything! And also while were at it lets institute a new law where the only way a new law can be started is if EVERYBODY is required to participate because if the medicine tastes good for us surely it wont be a problem for them to demonstrate that very “Notion” and we start with that dynamite healthcare plan “wink”
Crazy!!What are they doing with all the billions of dollars they already collect?????
welfare for mexicans
Government thieves…..
Should be in New York any day now…
LOL.. WELL I am sure some NUT JOB in California believes in that Global Warming C**p so they got what they Deserved…
so they got the tax in anyway.
Black trollism. This s*** will never happen in America again. No more of these creatures.