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 $0.10 per gallon fee is not a set price – it’s determined by California’s “cap-and-trade” market in which various industries trade their permits covering specific amounts of emissions, the total of which is capped by the state.
In other words, the “global warming” fee can go up.
“In August, California’s legislative analyst estimated that, by 2020, retail prices were likely to rise between 13 cents and 20 cents a gallon because of cap-and-trade,” McSwain added. “But the analyst, Mac Taylor, warned that increases could exceed 50 cents in some cases.”
“And an oil-industry group warned the costs could spike to 76 cents, based on state figures.”
This is intentional; the “cap-and-trade” system was designed to raise gas prices and energy costs using artificial scarcity created through the hoax of man-made “global warming.”
“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” President Obamatold reporters in 2008. “Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money.”
“They will pass that money on to consumers.”
Lol idiots
Jackie–auto makers sell cars not oil, and better fuel economy sells cars- they lead the way–
My Ford Fiesta will cruise at 90 mph and get 38 mpg
Just buy your gas in Arizona. Problem solved. Yeah, you might spend more than it would cost you to get it in-state, but that isnt the point. You are buying from out of state as a form of political protest. I’m sure that once the state see that it is losing money, they will remove the tax.
Yeah$#%&!@*you
Oh you are already paying for that
Fees are taxes simple as that
Got to provide for all those illegals! Gee, CA is the land of fruits and nuts.
Most of the population that votes in California are either illegal….or live in the cities…the rest of us vote against NEW TAXES…that’s why they make it a fee. I didn’t vote for moon beam or any other democrat in this state! I did vote for prop 187 and look where that got us…the ACLU DECIDED IT WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. So much for voting in this state. The federal tax dollars flooding into this state to support illegals and sanctuary cities cracks me up…you can$#%&!@*about California, but your tax dollars are supporting the madness
Thad then why is it when a gentlemen came up with a carburetor that went well over 100 mpg years ago the auto company bought his patent and it’s never been brought to light even to this day? It’s a know fact that they invest big time in what’s going to fuel their cars because of the high demand on oil, kind of cause and effect so to speak. Besides it’s also know that we’ve had technology in all areas to get us off our dependence on oil for a long time So all i’m saying is the people who keep denying us this technology and advancement need’s to be the one to pay these taxes “fees”.
Andrew Seramur