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.”
Californians are the epitome of socialism. They asked for this!!
Because this is a scam run by the Democrats!! Case in point, Al Gore is now worth a billion plus from this scam!!
Why do Californians keep electing these people?????
POOR CALIFORNIANS!! Being taxed to death. And the Politicians wonder why everyone is fleeing?
If it’s in California it will be in Washington state next!!!!
Thanks to the DemocRATS in Sacramento…
this extra fee/tax is based on faulty science models/methods which have now been shown to be faulty and false numbers. once again Ca. is being abused by the greenies and their handmaidens, the democratic,progressive socialists,communists, party operatives..follow the money you will find the people sealing your dollars!
Another liberal government! U love it pay for it!.
Keep voting them in.
Soon it will cost to much to drive.
So…… where is this 10 cent per gallon fee going to??? How does this tax effect those spewing tremendous amounts of smog in China and all around the world?