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.”
It never stops with the gov’t. There will never be enough taxes when they are not forced to live on a budget. More services, more welfare, creates a dependent society that requires more gov’t, more taxes. A vicious cycle. I am so glad I do not live in California.
It is not fact.. lol The Earth’s temperature is always changing….and it has nothing to do with mankind. The only thing fact is that certain people are getting rich scaring naive people into thinking that a natural occurrence is actually a man-made occurrence and that we’re all gonna die because of it.
and guess what… you’ll never see the benefit of that tax they are charging people. That money is going to everything but that. It’s going to everything but what’s actually important to the survival of this country.
The Dems in California, just can’t get enough of that tax payer booty hole.
Just another way the government justifies taking more money from the people.
serves them right for voting in all of those libtards
But if you don’t have obama scamcare you get TAXED.
That’s how they got obamacare…
… and how will this money be used to help deter global warming?
It is, but since the GOVERNMENT is doing the screwing over, it’s “legal”. Like social security…when you look at it, it’s a ponzi/pyramid scheme because it depends on a large base of people supporting those that are at the top, or retired. There are people in prison for doing the same thing.