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.”
California, the testing ground for whats to come to the rest of america
Thad Daly well since your such a nice and likeable person I won’t tell you where to shove that 37.50 + shipping. We will agree to disagree because you are obviously bent on living a lie and off fossil fuel.
Gas for the Sheep, BaaaaaHaaaaaa. Fing Delusional idiots
Government strategy.
So glad for California, I honestly don’t know how the citizens there deal with old moonbeam.
kinda like welfare freelaoders we get taxed for the freeloaders to get refunds
more money for those POOR politicians to jam in their pockets and purses..
The politicians need a pay increase, how else are they going to put gas into their $100.000 vehicles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jackie Mounts — Sad no sense of humor and even less technical sense– When H2 is burned it becomes H2O (HHO if you wish) generating a measurable amount of energy and heat–there is no process to reverse or separate the hydrogen and oxygen in water using less energy and heat– simple fact. Aero space spent a fortune in R&D trying —
So if you are the genius you think you are– give NASA a call; And document the existence of such a process right here..
The land of Fruits and Nuts!!! perfect..