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.”
Love it!!! Deserved for electing Brown. Lol!!!
Sorry Barbara , I forgot there are still some sane people that reside in California, that are stuck there, must be hard on you !! Good luck !!
Its the illegel tax.You dumb fuckers put these commie liberal demorats in.I hope his taxes you stupid people in to the ground.You get what you voted for.
Again,where does this c**p stop? Pretty soon people will just work for the state and they will give U food cards etc.
wow what a sham
That money will go to give more services to illegals and since they allow illegals to vote this will never change. More illegals voting for free stuff, than there are legal taxpayers that vote
HOW LONG ARE YOU FOOLS IN CALIFORNIA GOING TO PUT UP WITH THIS B******T?
And we want to let them decide who we will have for president! LOL. I don’t think so.
i lived in california for a short time. their residents always pay more for gas than anywhere else. at times it was 1.00 more
Not my governor.