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.”
This global warming is a scam for obama and kerry to get New World Order instituted. UN is backing this with several billionaires (soros)and obama planning to be UN director soon !
That’s what the whole thing is about with this global warming c**p next it will be heating oil and gas .. Then on other products because it causes global warming to produce it .. It will be in everything .. And none of it will be used to stop global warming .. It’s all a scam by the left .. After all look at who originally started all the fuss ..
Then they will pass it on to you Jackie mounts anyway … Lol !!!
Morons
That’s because of Homer Simpsons Boss Mr Burns The Crooked Jerry Brown.
Con.
Wow, and I thought at the current prices it was already essentially confiscation level pricing. Because you know, it wasn’t expensive enough already.
This period between boom and collapse is SO annoying. I wish people would either get rid of the illness or just let it all collapse already. So much wasted time and energy right now on these f**e prices and bills we don’t owe – but that we still have to pay, meaning work for.
A crime according to NASA…. NASA just put out information contradicting the global warming claim. So California is lying and profiting from this lie.
stupid
So much B******t going around