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.”
Jackie Mounts, Jackie, I am going to say this nicely since you seem like a nice person, corporation don’t pay taxes, they collect taxes! You need to start listening to people who make sense not to pie in the sky politicians. Do you think that the stars that are against fossil fuels care if a tank of gas goes up to 10.00/gal., that doesn’t affect them but it sure as hell affects you! Wise up!
Global warming &. Toilets come. 1 st before American. Vets. &. Citizens.. It’s our tax payer money.. What. The. F…….
oh its coming to each one of us. THEY AGREED IN PARIS many mo. ago. we missed the small print, its too late now.
Good. They deserve it, with Jerry Brown as their corrupt Overlord.
But there is no global warming!!!
There is nothing a democrap won’t tax if the public lets them.
There is no global warming!
Just remember those who laugh first laugh last!
Geoengineering you to carbon tax us.
so now you are paying for their scam