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.”
This should be illegal
It is time for the people of America to rise up against this govt en masse and put a stop to this communist style govt.
We need full disclosure on the all the taxes we pay for each gallon of gas on the receipts. I think most people would be shocked to see the amount of taxes we pay for each fill up.
This is liberal BS!
…and..where does the money actually go?
Global warming is a freaking scam. This tax is to fund the North American Union!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9APNQYcKgM
before I make a statement,I,d like to know where that money is going too.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Silly Californians! You think your 10 cents is going to save the planet? Are they giving it to China? Cuz thats where most pollution is coming from.
Global warming, a cycle that’s been going on since the beginning of time, you people will follow anybody. In the name of a tax, what, so the politicians can bleed it off to what ever they desire. It’s time you wake up, if a politicians lips are moving , they are lying. Get your heads out of the sand.
Human-caused global warming is not a hoax, it is a fact. Taxes like this help us to shift to non-carbon fuel sources, which is our only hope as a civilization.