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.”
This tax will do nothing to stop “global warming” but everything with lining @ssholes pocket with your hard earned cash. Stand up for yourselves!!
uhhh… The British were taxing the colonists 2.5% And now the Republic is taxing everyone 20 to 40+ %
The time to stand up was over a hundred years ago.
Is this the final straw that breaks the camel’s back?
Perhaps California didn’t get the memo, the Earth is now entering a natural cycle of global COOLING…
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/11/18/nasa-admits-winters-going-get-coldermuch-colder/
I have friends and family in California, but I don’t have one bit of sympathy for any of you Californians. You keep electing the same people, so live with it.
Thanks a lot Governor Moonbeam and all the rest of you ultra left wing liberal whack jobs in our statehouse!
You are now going to be charging us a “fee”, (Read TAX!!!), for a non existent problem!!!
Ok, so… as long as the money is being used effectively, I think its probably a good time for it. In fact, they should also raise the national gas tax too while they are at it. It has not kept up with inflation over the years and our roads are showing it! This will make alternative energy source more competitive too, which will benefit everyone long term.
I would like to see a national carbon tax. By starting early, states like CA will be more efficient when the tax comes. A very small cost compared to damages caused by climate change.
This is a good thing. The earth is not in a cooling period. 2014 was the warmest year since we started tracking temperature data. The oceans have gotten particularly hot the last decade and they are acidifying at an alarming rate. I hope the cost jumps to $.75/gallon, we need to take climate change seriously.
CALIFORNICATION!!!!
The powers that be are destroying the planet while charging us for it. geoengineeringwatch.org
CA has the nation’s 2nd highest gas tax at 63.8 cents/gallon (Jan., 2015). Add in the new 10+ cent CA “cap and trade” cost and CA is easily #1. National average is 48.3 cents. Yet CA has the 6th worst highways.
http://www.api.org/statistics/fueltaxes/ (CA has nation’s 4th highest diesel tax – 73.5 cents/gallon)
and
http://reason.org/news/show/21st-annual-highway-report