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 $0.10 per gallon fee is not a set price – it’s determined by California’s “cap-and-trade” market in which various industries trade their permits covering specific amounts of emissions, the total of which is capped by the state.
In other words, the “global warming” fee can go up.
“In August, California’s legislative analyst estimated that, by 2020, retail prices were likely to rise between 13 cents and 20 cents a gallon because of cap-and-trade,” McSwain added. “But the analyst, Mac Taylor, warned that increases could exceed 50 cents in some cases.”
“And an oil-industry group warned the costs could spike to 76 cents, based on state figures.”
This is intentional; the “cap-and-trade” system was designed to raise gas prices and energy costs using artificial scarcity created through the hoax of man-made “global warming.”
“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” President Obamatold reporters in 2008. “Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money.”
“They will pass that money on to consumers.”
Who cares about kalifornia? Mexico is welcome to that State.
Global warming is a farce. Wake up and read the real data.
If a meter could be devised for breathing the air in California, they would tax you on using air too….guess I shouldn’t give them any ideas.
All the more reason to stay the hell away from Kalifornia!
Good tax the$#%&!@*out of them
P**s in your tank
this is to help pay those$#%&!@*s $15/hr wages good for the state
Wake Up America!! You the Silent Majority needs to get off your$#%&!@* and Vote for who is going to Make America Great Again!! It’s is not a democrat, or lying guy from TX either. Both are financed by big business and special interest groups. Both are just a poor choice to be in office specially after the fool in office now!! If the Republican party takes this away from the one with the most votes, regardless if he reached that magic number, he’s has the best interest of our country in mind if not, why are there so many fools from both sides trying to tear him down?? Its FEAR that is in their minds, fear of losing their gravy train!! And don’t give a dam about us and the USA!!! Wake Up America!! Let’s get together and Make America Great Again!!!
And WHERE is that tax going?
Arla May Thank you. And not everyone in California is a liberal!