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.”
To where is this money going?????? Heh..
Erm? Aaaaaaa? Gas prices are dropping? So .10 cents is a drop in the bucket compared to $3.50 a gallon 5 years ago. Perhaps if the Republicans would stop blocking legislation that address global warming Californians would not have to pay the price of a 1960’s phone call?
Roberts was pressured by Congress to deem the ACA an (unConstitutional) tax,to appease Obama and his new law..
SO.. How did the last global warming event and the ones before that happen? MALINKOV cycles not CO2 from cars.
Come on you government fools !!! STOP this man before he rapes your country of its constitution and freedoms that our families fought and died for !!!! HE Is in office built on lies !!! Impeachment anthe prison !!!!
With no proof…that is thievery
global warming is a lie. granted we should take precautions and try to make air cleaner but global warming is a lie to brainwash ppl and make somebody some money.
Good. They deserve it because they elected those officials. Time to pay the piper. Next up, if the .fed introduces this, it better be voted down….
California keeps electing these Libs, so I really have no sympathy for them.
what state next ? they r talking now about a new tax on gas .