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.”
Fools! Rename that state….Clownafornia!
And wasting all the food corn on ethanol while food prices keep rising!
Global warming is a lie! But the fee
(TAX) isn’t! Global warming is an excuse to rule, control and rob the
people! JUST LIKE OBAMA CARE!
we should give calif back to the mexicans so they will leave the rest of the USA alone, and maybe it will fall into the ocean soon.
ILLEGAL
You cannot fix stupid.
Just more California Idiiocy
And how much money do you all pay to kill people every day. That’s an average of 150 humans a day for 15 years so all you self entitled drones can complain about your gas prices like the whining bitches you are. Poor babies…, so sad, wah, wah, wah. A people who only think about personal self interest and have no concern about the future and disregard the deaths of millions of human beings that have died so you can all behave like fat$#%&!@*pigs at the trough even fighting each other over the slop that the 1% feeds you. Good luck with your dying empire. Good luck with your cancer, and$#%&!@*your children’s future because Karma is a$#%&!@*with a long memory and$#%&!@*is about to break. Then you will all have something to really cry about.
hope jerry puts up that wall around ca. and keep all the B S there lol
Itds scam..and thanks to Obama