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.”
That’s right, keep rambling nonsense and your pitiful attempts at humor; that’s all you conservative $#%&!@*heads seem capable of, because you sure aren’t capable of living in reality and accepting facts.
No sympathy from me…the left coast has bought into this crapola hook, line, and sinker…the only sympathy I have is if they didn’t get a chance to vote on it…this global warming is another one of Obozo’s “hoax and chains” schemes…
They voted for that Jerry Brown-rot.. they can have him.
HAHA!
No sympathy from me either…enjoy the benefits of being LIBERALS with taxes…time to re-think your party affiliations!
This is only a start. They always start small and the fees and taxes keep going up once it’s accepted by the consumer. Just as the sales tax started at a lowly 4% and is not 10% despite the fact that each year as the prices of goods go up and the total amount of good purchased goes up the state continues to make more and more money every year. But they justify the increases in the actual rates by saying it has not gone up in a long time!! And the sheep continue to believe the c**p! That is EXACTLY WHAT IT IS…….A HUGE S C A M ! !
global warming is a FRAUD and it was actually a typo that was suppose to say global warning ..The fact is we are heading into an ice age
didn’t this start a revolution once somewhere?
I will never visit CA.
no, it has been proven to be not true. I’ll never buy in to that socialist bunk. There has been changes in the climate since the beginning of time, this is no different. It’s a money making scam