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.”
Ya because she promises more of the same of what we’ve had the last 8 years.
Fee not a tax like Obamacare until the SC decided it was a tax?
Yet another reason to stay out of California ,but it starts here how far will it go ?
People in California are about the dumbest people in this country. Stop letting the liberals overrun you, unless you continue to support liberals. Then, sucks to be you and karma has come home.
Time to revolt, Kalifornicaters.
Any time you have to pay a fee, a fine a tax or buy a permit it is a tax. Another fee on top of a tax you already pay is double taxation on a product and against the law. Or at least it should be.
They have the government they deserve, thank God I live in Texas now we have to stop those left coast rats from moving here.
B******t !
We have excise taxes that keep our energy prices higher and many individuals don’t even know that they are paying them.
Good, they can pay my share as well.