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.”
In California, we already had tax on our gas for the roads. Then they add this. They want to tax us so high so we all live in the main city and ride bikes.
Because some of us live in right winged counties that do not vote liberal.
what a stupid fee where is the global warming not any just nature at its best doing what it has done for millions of years climate changes
A friend some years ago said, ANYTIME the GOVT. wants more money, ” THEY JUST PASS A LAW TO GET IT !
They want to tax us so high so we all live in the main city and ride bikes Not all of us live in liberal counties. I am fifth generation here. I tried moving out and people were rude in other states just because I was from California. And let’s face it. I couldn’t survive a real winter. My skin is too thin from five generations living here.
Oh, so now there is global warming, I could have sworn everyone except Al Gore was denying there ever was global warming…
And thanks to obama care those junkies now have free heath coverage to cover all their drug-using related medical expenses and guess who pays for it? Honest hardworking people who pay premiums for theirs, that’s who.
this is ridcoulus.
How do you tax something that doesn’t exist??? They can’t prove global warming!
So, is the State going to buy ice cubes with the revenue?