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.”
Anyone who subjects themselves to the kind of economic tyranny that California inflicts on its residents, must have a screw loose to put up with it.
Keep it up CA aand soon you will have no residencies
“fees” on top of taxes on top of “fees” on top of taxes, soon your 1040 form will just say “how much did you make last year”? send it in to the government to waste!!!
The worst thing to have in California is a job
need money for the illegals
Taxation without representation, double taxation and taxes not equally applied to the legislators that made the law, are all unconstitutional. Any state that does not mirror the US Constitution is in direct violation of the law. Their federal funding needs pulling immediately, and their statehood corporation needs relegating to a US territory. They can then decide if they wish to remain a state of the United States.
no no no
What amazes me is that the residents of California just keep paying what ever the government comes up with regardless.
I Missed The Part Where WE Voted For This?
Ya’ll are so fucked by the democrats.