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.”
We are smart enough to know it’s not a gas tax. Sacramento is the house of Moonbeam and the thieves. Moonbeam and the thieves try to give the rest of the country the impression that California (you know the tiny dot on the planet) is going to save the world so he can steal more from Californians. Those of you that don’t live in California he is stealing from you too. A lot of what comes into the country comes through California. He is stealing his before it reaches you.
Unions support Democrats and claim to be for working people. What garbage! Democrats are the enemy of working people, only want to tax them to death.
You hit the nail right on the head.
it’s just about that way now unless you are an illegal alien.
Most of California is purple, and a lot is red. But we have two big population centers (LA & SF) that hold us hostage!
False Fee.
That’s funny$#%&!@* ….. but yet they can’t afford to maintain their state.. a lot of that money is going to fund terrorist groups. The blind leading the blind.
The reason for the claims of global warming… new taxes.
They allow this I don’t care what happens to California ifbit burns or slides into the sea oh well bye bye
Another failed state thanks to Demorats.