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.”
Bureaucrats are true parasites. They reproduce and consume resources until they kill the host.
Keep on texting them Jerry pretty soon they will leave and you won’t have anybody to pay your outlandish taxes
This is fuming crazy stupid $#%&!@*crooked sOBs! Fuk brown!
That’s not what it’s for it’s for Jerry’s brown pocket he’s a$#%&!@*sucker when the hell is California going to vote him out or are you guys pussies I would be ashamed of myself to live there you guys are$#%&!@*to let him lead your government ha ha dumb ass
CA has an acid head Gov Moon Beam who is ripping off the taxpayers to fund his ponzi scheme Paris Agreement which is illegal for him to do. I would hate living in CA but TX doesn’t need the over flow, go OK or TN…just keep on going, TX is getting full.
JUST HOW STUPID ARE THEM PEOPLE,,,SEND MOONBEAN TO HELL WHERE HE BELONGS..
You can ignore and be sheap or stand up and have a Civil War Jerry Brown is a$#%&!@*his dad dad was a$#%&!@*do you need to stand up stand up kick his$#%&!@*or lose everything dumb$#%&!@*or ignore it and stop bitching
Is that an assault weapon?
What Bull
ARREST BROWN NOW!!!!!!