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.”
SMFO
No wonder every one’s leaving..
Oh so they start charging with Obama raising his retirement money!!!
Such b******t
Instead of tea this time, let’s start throwing law makers into the harbor! Wake up people! They are draining our bank accounts and we just sit here and stick our heads in the sand.
LOL you would think they would put out the welcome sign for Mr. Trump after all the government is doing out there…<3
Only from the land of fruits, nuts, fags and lesbo’s. Morons to the max.
Since global warming is a hoax, someone should file a class action suit against California for theft.
How stupid!!!!!!!!!!
Just a note, start up a business any I don’t care, use your vehicle , record and edit every mile you drive, send this in to fed irs tax time up to 55cents per mile credit given, you just beat the system