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.”
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I hate it that I have to go to California.
That’s a progressive for you, tax and spend!
What Global warming, their pockets
Don’t think there are too many Republicans left in California so they are taxing the democrats and they are dumb enough to pay it – so be it!!!
Moonbeam strikes again!
Ridiculous!
Ridiculous !!!
Dumb
Total idiots running the government of California! The roads are a mess, the homeless population is out of control and yet we pay one of the highest personal income and property taxes in the country! You can’t make this up – they are squandering our money! promoting sanctuary state with all control in Sacramento, increasing the gas tax which of course hits the wOrkin class people the hardest, building trains to no where, hiring people who were run out of the Obama administration, such as former AG. Where is all our money going ???? Stop the madness I. This state and in this country! We cannot sustain this assault on the people who work to pay for the excesses of the greed of the government. They can’t stand and don’t care about we the people! It us all a game to the. The mantra is “we don’t care because we won’t be there”. Meaning by the time oeopke react or just get fed up they will have moved on to rocking something else.