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.”
Kinda like Obama Care not a tax but they fine you if you don’t pay it, I’m sorry don’t have insurance by/of choice? How is it choice let’s see… Food, Utilities, Car and Car insurance to get to work to pay for heat, roof over your head, food, to sustain life, medications if needed and you can afford them or lets see….INSURANCE NO ONE ACCEPTS! Humm isn’t there a Law about “Double” taxation? Is it true the subsidy they offer gets taken from any tax refund you may (or may not you still have to pay the difference) get at the end of the year…can’t seem to pin down an answer to that one when I asked that question…Anyone else know? Why are the Gas Prices Half what they were just months ago? Really? Is the War Over ? Or is it just Texas gas?
The reason our world is such a poisoned wasteland is because of the attitude that we have a right to consume whatever we want, when we want, with no regard for the consequences of depleting our world of all its finest assets. We are a scourge to our planet, with no hope of survival.
With a loony like Gore running around, and a fruitcake like Moonbeam Brown as governor, stupid things like this are going to happen in Kalifornia
youve gotta be f’in kidding me?
How about curbing their spending!!! We’ve paid enough taxes for all the stupid things these boneheaded politicians spend it on.
More yuppie B.S.
Man made global warming is a con.
So glad I don’t live in California 🙂
when will people stand up to all there BS lies
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