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.”
They just keep getting more STUPID!!!
As if money will somehow fix this Non-existent problem. Throwing money at things, is a common error of Liberal-idiots.
Politicians are really stupid. They don’t think the public is smart enough to know what they’re doing? Where, oh where, do we get these clowns? And, the bigger question …………… why in the heck to people vote for them?
Tax on a tax is illegal, but what the hey, our government doesn’t recognize illegal.
Sadly, enough of the public are that stupid and they keep voting for those who keep breaking them. All evil loons. 🙂
That’s desert, my dear. Listen to the liberal lies and you will be misled every time!
So glad I chose to be laid off in Texas rather than move to California.
how dare CA have a tax we dont have in nys…get ready nys
Lmaoao
Once again Nancy Pelosi shows her stupidity by stating out loud that since gas prices are down we can afford a bigger tax on gas. How about we pass a tax law that says the more expensive gas goes the tax is reduced an equal amount to keep the price of gas level?