Neal Kaye writes | Californians already pay the nation’s second highest gas tax at 68 cents a gallon — and now it will go up again in January to pay for a first-in-the-nation climate change law.
“I didn’t know that,” said Los Angeles motorist Tyler Rich. “It’s ridiculous.”
“I think it’s terrible,” added Lupe Sanchez, pumping $4.09-a-gallon gas at a Chevron near Santa Monica. “The economy, the way it is right now with jobs and everything, it’s just crazy.”
When gas prices go up, motorists typically blame oil companies, Arab sheiks and Wall Street speculators. This time they can blame Sacramento and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for passing a bill requiring California to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/27/california-hidden-gas-tax/
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Some notes: gasoline in California will be subject to California’s Global Warming Solutions Act tax (Schwarzenegger signed AB 32 into law in 2006) which will boost the price starting at $0.12 per gallon and could go as high as $0.76.
Right now, Hawaii has the nation’s highest gas prices, California is second. This new tax would make California the state with the highest priced gasoline and diesel fuel.
your gas cost is CA will go up further once we build the northern gateway ans no longer have to sell our oil at a discount to the us
It’s a STUPID tax. If you are stupid enough to live there, you deserve to pay the taxes.
Steamboat Jack would remember Watts, Eschenbach, Svalgaard, and Charles the Mod all live in California and they likely don’t like being called stupid.
Oh, and Mosher is there too.
Reblogged this on Sierra Foothill Commentary and commented:
I have written about this issue before and now others are joining the chorus. However, the question is any one listening? The people I ask, are clueless about AB-32 and the gas price increases. Readers of this blog should know about the price increase, but what about their friends and neighbors?
All the oil produced will still get burned. The decline in demand (which will probably be very small) in California will be matched by the increase in demand by the rest of the country. The politicians have no understanding of energy, science, or economics. Some energy use will just get shifted from the drivers in California to the projects funded by the tax. Most likely the free market would make more efficient use of the energy than the government intervention, but the follow up analysis won’t be done. These taxes and regulations are really driven by the politician’s (and the big money psychopaths controlling them) infatuation with government power. Every problem real or imagined is a convenient excuse to take power from the people and give power to the government.
Anybody ever thoght about alternatives? Ethanol, LNG(Liquid Natural Gas) or LPG(Liquefied Petroleum Gas)??? When you run a car t h a t much as 100miles/day commuting, you certainly wouldn’t mind spending approx. USD 4k on a conversion to LPG- and you get it for less. Many forklifts already have it! The dutch, namely Prins, are making top-quality high-end kits.
During the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, which caused a scarcity of gasoline and diesel in certain countries, many light/medium duty trucks and forklifts in the U.S. were converted to LPG using fuel regulators supplied by Impco. The converted trucks were commonly called the gutless wonders because of their lack of horsepower, but the forklifts relying on torque rather than speed did well and are the preferred method of fuel to this day.
There are Class 8 trucks being sold in the U.S. currently that are run on LNG. I don’t know if they have the same issue of being underpowered as the previous light/medium trucks did with LPG, but both LPG and LNG are considerably cheaper per gallon than gasoline or diesel in the U.S.
A picture paints a thousand words. More sometimes.
http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx