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.”
thats because cali is full of retards
Didnt they figure out global warming was a hoax a long time ago? and they are still pushing it as scientific fact? the supposed scientific facts that came from the oil companies? Global warming is caused by the sun which goes through cycles..the more activity on the sun the hotter it is here and the more chance of bad weather here…its nothing more than that
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/11/12/the-coming-revelation-of-the-global-warming-fraud-resembles-the-obamacare-lie/
California is on a different planet.
then why is the earth cooling? not heating up..its caused by cycles of the sun..more activity on the sun means its going to be hotter here and less activity means its going to be cooler..if there are habits that humans are doing to cause it why dont we just stop the habits that cause it…money isnt going to make it all better
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/05/31/sorry-global-warming-alarmists-the-earth-is-cooling/
you see they arent going to change anything or they would have done it in tesla’s day..they had the resources for worldwide power ..all they needed to do was build the tesla tower and build an infrastructure of solar panels and the whole world would have power..but j.p. morgan had other ideas…..they will continue to create more taxes to drain people of more money..dont be confused by the rhetoric…fee/tax same difference
Why does this stupid lie keep being posted? My son lives in California and he says this site is ALWAYS lying. They post this c**p to get the wingnuts whinning.
Can’t imagine why anyone would choose to live in California.
Well, ya they have to pay for all those free licenses going to the illegal aliens and there insurance