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.”
where in the world could anything like that buit in Califonia the liberal capital of the world.
Californians really are that stupid…
We’re not all that stupid, but we don’t have any choice when these things have been enacted without our knowledge! If you knew anything about CA you’d know that we need to have personal transportation to get anywhere. for instance I have to go 11 miles one way to see my doctor and we do have buses but they run like three or four hour schedules. in other words, the distances are such that we have to have cars so we HAVE to pay the fees (TAXES)
What you don’t seem to understand is that we have no say in the matter. This is being done without our consent!
Give it a year and that fee will be country-wide…………
more mopney for them to p**s away
they should be tared and feathered!
Keep electing liberals cal
Thank you, Gov. Moonbeam
why anyone still lives in Calif. is beyond me!
When you can’t see the mountains due to the smog, you make changes for the health of the people. Maybe not in China – see Bejing – but here in California we sure as hell do. Don’t want to pay it? Evolve to an electric life. I haven’t bought gas in years, and solar power makes my cars go. Coming close to 100,000 miles all electric.
Why not we pay helth ins. on every pack of smokes .