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.”
Yeah you can bill oil companies directly
FRAUD, It’s to support illegals, 😛
You got to be kidding! Enough with taxes Get rid of it!
Morons
I left California because of its mismanagement, my last straw was the plstic bag ban where they learned how to make consumers pay to go shopping. Then the ridicules Fire Pervention Fee (TAX) that goes up every year. I had enough. I took my wife and younger son and left the state. Yes it was bad enough to LEAVE, and with great SADNESS I left, my Adult Daughter and Adult Son there, plus my dad and other family members. YES jerry brown SPLIT UP MY FAMILY AND I AM A VETERAN AND CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. There our two paths Californians have to make a change, next election, set up individuals outside polling places ensurinng legal citizens vote and NO stuffing the ballot box. OR Leave california, the only people paying some sort of tax with be the illegal elected officials and then the state will default back to the Federal Government. SO SAD.
No new taxes!
It’s financially Inept governor fee. It will go up again in a 2 years. Brown is the most wasteful governor in the country. Overtaxes absolutely everything, yet, has less to show.
Fucking$#%&!@*Jerry Brown
That’s what u get when put a greedy low life in office
The state legislatures are primarily are criminals! Let’s presume and play by their rules and have California secede from the union; California would not only wither on the vine, but would totally be left defenseless. This would put the United States in danger from foreign enemies.