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.”
Should that be called the sanctuary tax because keeping up all those illegals is what it really for
That’s why Trump withdrew from the Paris accord. So we wouldn’t be burdened by non represented taxation.
Its all a big scam, and totally lies to steal Americans livelihood.
Hope you enjoy not having any leadership, Have a Great Day…..
Get out before Moonbeam chips you!
It’s only fare for California. After all they voted these people into office, didn’t they!
It’s making more and more sense to me why businesses are closing there doors and moving to other states California and the way they do business has really helped our state out a lot
He bribed no such thing as global warming
I have gotta get out of this friggin’ liberal state!!!
A lot of us didn’t vote for Governor Moonbeam!
Gloria Pegler I am sorry you and the others are out numbered. The state really needs people of your caliber to save it. I wish you the very best.