Californians Now Paying A �Global Warming� Fee On Gasoline

OFF THE WIRE
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.�