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California drivers brace for costly new gas tax

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."

The California Air Resources Board, the Golden State's premier anti-pollution agency, predicts the new tax will raise gasoline prices from 20 cents to $1.30 per gallon.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/27/california-hidden-gas-tax/

WE RULE!!!
 
Well considering taxes have not gone up much in the last 30 years and yet gas prices have tripled in the last 15...I don't know understand that outrage.

Gas taxes in California currently break down as follows:  39.5 cents state, 18.4 cents federal and 14 cents in sales tax. 
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fuel-bill-fails-20140825-story.html

A bill pushed by the oil industry, business lobbyists and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers to suspend a new motor vehicle fuel regulation won't see the light of day this year.

The group, led by Assemblyman Henry T. Perea (D-Fresno), had been pushing legislation to suspend part of California's so-called cap-and-trade regulations that were aimed at reducing carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Cap and trade is an auction system to allocate the cost of polluting carbons among industrial and other emitters.

The bill, AB 69, was designed to head off what Perea and allies -- in a major multimedia public relations campaign -- called a "hidden gas tax" of as much as 15 cents a gallon extra that consumers are going to start paying at the pump in January.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fuel-bill-fails-20140825-story.html

I don't know where the 20 cents come from...even the oil industry predicts a 12-15 cent increase.

The tax can also be lower depending on how the cap and trade system works out.
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtal...rnia-business-groups-warn-of-impending-hidde/

It's also ironic that people are complaining about how the impact of tax is on the Central Valley when they are also opposing the building of the high speed rail in that region.
 
paperboyNC said:
Time to get an EV:
http://www.talkirvine.com/index.php/topic,12152.0/topicseen.html
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They'll get that back from you eventually also

SCE rates rise as utility wants to spread the pain

A friendly piece of advice for Southern California Edison customers: Check your budget before cranking up the air conditioning this summer.

Last week, the state Public Utilities Commission last week approved a rate increase for the nearly 5 million SCE customers -- an average surge of 8 percent, according to the Daily Breeze.

http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2014/06/19/sce-rates-rise-as-utility-wants-to-spread-the.html
 
Irvinecommuter said:
Well considering taxes have not gone up much in the last 30 years and yet gas prices have tripled in the last 15...I don't know understand that outrage.

Gas taxes in California currently break down as follows:  39.5 cents state, 18.4 cents federal and 14 cents in sales tax. 
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fuel-bill-fails-20140825-story.html

A bill pushed by the oil industry, business lobbyists and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers to suspend a new motor vehicle fuel regulation won't see the light of day this year.



The group, led by Assemblyman Henry T. Perea (D-Fresno), had been pushing legislation to suspend part of California's so-called cap-and-trade regulations that were aimed at reducing carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Cap and trade is an auction system to allocate the cost of polluting carbons among industrial and other emitters.

The bill, AB 69, was designed to head off what Perea and allies -- in a major multimedia public relations campaign -- called a "hidden gas tax" of as much as 15 cents a gallon extra that consumers are going to start paying at the pump in January.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fuel-bill-fails-20140825-story.html

I don't know where the 20 cents come from...even the oil industry predicts a 12-15 cent increase.

The tax can also be lower depending on how the cap and trade system works out.
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtal...rnia-business-groups-warn-of-impending-hidde/

It's also ironic that people are complaining about how the impact of tax is on the Central Valley when they are also opposing the building of the high speed rail in that region.
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Everyone should be ourtaged. 
You're saying we're the highest taxed, but we should be happy it's not more?
Sometimes I think we get exactly the government we deserve.

Are you kidding about "highspeed" rail?  That's a total joke, waste of money, and fraud on the taxpayers. 
 
morekaos said:
paperboyNC said:
Time to get an EV:
http://www.talkirvine.com/index.php/topic,12152.0/topicseen.html
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They'll get that back from you eventually also

SCE rates rise as utility wants to spread the pain

A friendly piece of advice for Southern California Edison customers: Check your budget before cranking up the air conditioning this summer.

Last week, the state Public Utilities Commission last week approved a rate increase for the nearly 5 million SCE customers -- an average surge of 8 percent, according to the Daily Breeze.

http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2014/06/19/sce-rates-rise-as-utility-wants-to-spread-the.html
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The time for solar is prime.
 
It's really the voters. They never read the details on this propositions which are disguised tax increases.  Oh I want to help schools.. oh I want to save the environment. 
 
jmoney74 said:
It's really the voters. They never read the details on this propositions which are disguised tax increases.  Oh I want to help schools.. oh I want to save the environment.
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Combination of the following: misguided voters, elected officials, and government over spending. Arnold S. passed a bill to reduce carbon emissions, and he's a Republican. So next year the law will effect oil refiners to buy credit for each ton of carbon emitted into the atmosphere. Therefore, the refiners will pass on the costs to the consumers.
 
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