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.”
What are they doing with the money ??? It’s not going to help so called global warming . So what are they doing with it ???
Everyone move away from there.
Welcome to Crazy Jerry’s World..tax THEM and when they scream, make a tax on that too !! Gov. Moon Beam and tax the magic joint that he adores from SF, days of free love. He would have taxed that had he known back then what he knows now , TAXES !!!!!
Only California could be sooooooo stupid.
The stupid governor thinks steeling money from the people will bring their
Debt down but he’s too stupid to know he is slowly destroying california☠️
Californians are plagued with Liberaltardation Gene!?!?
As if they didn’t already have enough strikes against them and didn’t have enough reasons to move
But what are the politicians actually going to spend the money on? Not what it is being collected for. Most likely pocketed.
Maybe they’ll get fed up with the “Moonbeam Tax,” to support taxing all residents on the Moon…
You get what you vote for.
You idiots. Your elected