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.”
This is illegal multiple taxes on the same reason is outlawed!!
Can’t fix stupid::::::
San Andreas Fault ……. Bye!
WHY would ANYONE want to live in this STATE????
Shoot the bastards
Why are they putting up with this BS? Just who will be left to supports all the ILLEGALS?
When you elect moronic liberals to run your state government, they bring with them harmful policies. California is nearly bankrupt. Californians have elected leaders who are poor stuards of the tax revenue they collect. The states pins an obnoxious amount of money defending and endearing themselves to illegal immigrants. If California spent tax money on programs to help Americans, California wouldn’t have a budget issue. Elect better leaders California, we don’t feel sorry for you.
Californians elect leaders who spend far too much tax revenue on attorneys and encarceration of illegal immigrants. They are afforded entitlements that many Americans who paid into those entitlements are denied.
They deserve everything for electing people like Jerry Brown
Learn how to spell you moron.
Steward not ” stuard” duh!!!