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.”
Global warming my butt if anyone did there history atlantas is now under water built century’s ago. Cough cough and why is it underwater the ice cap was a lot bigger and there were no cars no pollution. Think about that
to fund ILLEGALS!
No. California is now pay a higher tax on gas so their government can have more money to give to the refugees they take in, they wanted to be separated from the rest of the States so federal funding stopped, they only gave the federal funding to refugees and not what it was meant for anyway so this is just another way for them to make more money to give them. BTW the refugees will only end up killing you all and maybe more States!!
Great, use another LIE to pick everyone’s pocket. Why? So you can spend all that money on the illegals and refugees and allow them to invade some more? California is as American as Africa is and just about as far away from reality too. Wall them off along with Mexico.
Another good reason to stay away from California.
Collecting a Global Tax is called FRAUD here in the U.S. .
You liberals get what you ask for p**s poor run state hope you succeed from union with no more tax dollars from Fed level
Wow! Come to Florida, we don’t even have a state income tax.
I want to take you higher
DEFUND ANY STATE WITH ILLEGALS & HAVE ILLEGALS IN OFFICE THERE IS NO SANCUTARY PLACES !!! PUT ILLGEAL POLITICIANS ON LISTS TO BE GONE (HELL THEY ARE ALREADY PUTTING TARGETS ON THEMSELVES JUST LIKE THE ILLEGALS) !!!