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.”
Ok, Dale Bohannon, just what would you have us to do. The did not ask us, or let us have say in it. We have to wait, and vote them out, but the problem with that is the liberals keep voting them in.
Pat Rogers …Don’t blame the people? Who voted ?
Seeing as we don’t have global warming, I guess he’s using it to support his muslim mooching illegals
I guess their above the law. No law no order
Start a petition put information on Facebook but if people don’t something nothing changes.
That should cool things down, just throw money at it, that will fix the problem,
Fight this California, it’s the democrats at work to get your money.
Petition after petition, nothing done, gets worse. Signing a piece of paper is a waste of time. You just get more junk mail.
It is the problem of people who voted. The problem is one half believe they are being noble trying to share the world, but they are being lied too. The other half are frustrated voting thinking it won’t matter because califorina’s voting system is rigged and there right. The illegal sanctuary cities allow illegals to vote and if that wasn’t bad enough the democrats stuff the ballet box or pre punch out a democratic candidate on the ticket, so when you vote replublican it shows you cast two votes on one ticket making your ballet void and not counted. So the BIG Push is the people demanding legitimacy over the ballet box by an independant monitoring registored voters and legal ballets cast. Then the people of California will win back one of the greatest states in the union from the psychotic Dems who want to enslave people not physically anymore but Fiscally dependant dlaves to them to rule.
gee, Why would any state follow California’s lead,only 5 States are controlled by the liberal Democratic Party, That mean 45 States have rejected such nonsense. By 2020 with the highest energy costs in the Country may finally have had enough and things could change.