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.”
Electric cars!
And you note: the same exact means whereby the ACA was formed… Chief Justice Roberts clearly opined the ACA as a “TAX” (the largest tax increase in the history of the Nation!) – not as “healthcare”….. Yet, reading the ACA – at no point in the verbiage within is the word “tax”….. Shouldn’t this be headline news Fox News, The Kelly File, On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Judge Jeanine Pirro ?????????????
global warming is a hoax
It doesn’t matter if global warming is real or hoax, is taxing going to stop it? No but it will give the EPA more money and think the 10 cent tax was put on before the tax so the can tax the tax again. to sum it up Ca. people are stupid hell we all are for letting EPA gov. to get away with it.
so in other words they are paying taxes on a lie and something that doesnt exist
Extortion, nothing more or less & it’s “legal” because the government is doing it. Anybody else & you go to prison!
Hey nut jobs there is no such a thing as global warming, its Al GOres Brain frying.
its a fee to support your new illegal alien families!
The global warming hoax just won’t seem to die, no matter how much the truth gets out there. Too many folks are counting on you paying these fees and taxes to line their pockets. Wealth redistribution.
Who’s pockets is this money going to fatten? I’d almost bet that there is not even the outline of a plan that an ordinary citizen can put their hands on. It’ll be guzzle, guzzle, guzzle as you fill your gas tank.
Oh joy, more money to spend on a the hoax of the millenium!