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.”
LOL it’s more than a hoax, it’s a power grab, and a major money maker. The “data” that fat Al Gore and other con artists provide is based on skewed facts and has never been replicated in a lab. Al Gore, the global warming “expert”, a man that got a “D” in earth science, and one of the biggest energy abusers/users in the state of Tennessee (and I’m sure he’s making a big dent in his mega mansion beach house in California) has made over 100 million dollars from the “global warming lemmings” that buy into his BS. If you knew anything about how the earth actually “works” you’d know that historically the earth has been warmer and colder than it is today.
Of COURSE they are. The term ‘taxation without representation’ is becoming a greater and greater reality in our country today. Our ‘representatives’ simply do their own thing and pat the voters on the head. “be good children, do as you;re told’ And the sheeple follow along.
Where is the lie? They are paying an additional fee on their gas. Businesses are fleeing the state. Californians are fleeing the state (and unfortunately bringing their special kind of stupid with them to areas like Houston and Austin). Farmers are losing their farms due to idiots in Sacramento protecting a non native bait fish? Sounds more like your son is part of the left wing lemming problem with their very narrow view of the world
More government double speak. What do you expect?
If this is true as stated a tank of gas in an average size car will be well over $100.00.
I miss-read the amount. It’s 10 cents a gallon fee.
so true!
That is just the start… it will be over a dollar before you know it !
Tell me how ?
As soon as price goes down the pols try to push it back up by lining their own pockets and wasting money on pet projects! This is truly the land of the fruits and the nuts!