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.”
They took a page from the Wyoming GOP super majority legislature.
So now the citizens of California will be paying for the chemicals used to spray chemtrails that are used supposedly to fight global warming over the state. Makes sense!!!!!
Government gone awry. Pray to God, in the name of Jesus Christ, for our country.
thats ok before the price went down here in Ct we had 2 gas taxes on our gas and now that its down our POS governor want to raise the tax like the price isn’t going to ever go back up
so you end up paying tax on the fee!
Time For Another Crusade!!
I wonder how much of a raise the politicians get with this new tax? They know the people will not give them a raise because they do not deserve it.
There will not be anything left in the fund because the politicians will take it for other uses and cry for more !
So, um, lets say I believed that global warming was even true (because the freeze that California is currently in laughs in the face of anything warming) and the fact that the earth has gone through repeated warming and freezing even before people were here driving their evil SUVs… but anyway, say I believed it, what is this .10 going to do? Pay mother nature to cool things down? Pay to build a huge fan that we will face at the hot to cool it down? Hire large men to stand in the streets and wave hand fans? Politicians ARE aware that California isnt the only state right? So a bankrupt state is going to foot this impossible “fee” to fix a made up problem? I hate this state!
they can reap what they sow.