Posted on 08/29/2014 8:21:06 AM PDT by Signalman
Opponents of a greenhouse-gas reducing proposal that could significantly increase gas prices next year are asking the public to weigh in after being handed a political defeat in the state Legislature.
The National Federation of Independent Business came to Fresno on Thursday, where it urged voters to exert political pressure on Gov. Jerry Brown, other elected officials and the state Air Resources Control Board to either stop or delay a new cap-and-trade mandate that starting Jan. 1 will cover transportation fuels.
"This is a hidden gas tax that, make no mistake, is coming to your local gas station come Jan. 1 of this next year," John Kabateck, the NFIB's executive director in California, said Thursday morning at a news conference at Sal's Mexican Restaurant in north Fresno.
California's cap-and-trade program is part of Assembly Bill 32, the state's 2006 emissions-reducing law. It requires industries to buy pollution allowances for carbon they release into the air. Next year, transportation fuels will be added to the program.
It will likely bring a case of sticker shock to the state's drivers.
The nonpartisan state Legislative Analyst's Office said in a letter that after reviewing studies, it estimated that by 2020 gas prices could increase 13 to 20 cents per gallon -- or even 50 cents or more.
At Thursday's news conference, speakers suggested the increase could top 70 cents per gallon.
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Who will this affect the most - the Gringo’s or the DREAMERS?
Only LaRaza knows for sure...
Got to be a major program to off-set the state’s poor. No way can they pony up 50 cents a gallon.
Not just by democrats but by the blanky blank blank Arnold Schwarzenegger who signed it into law because he wanted to by liked by the liberals.
“CA drivers getting screwed again.”
EXACTLY!
You know what the transportation industry will do is to disallow their drivers to refuel in the State of California. The Industry giants do it all the time. They have their trucks refuel before crossing into whichever (Blue) State has the highest fuel costs, (’cause it’s always Blue States) and refuel upon leaving the high fuel cost State. The fuel they burn while here in California doesn’t meet the standards set by the enviro-whacko’s, so it’s sort of self defeating to have such laws me thinks.
Meanwhile Californians pay the price, ‘cause they are stuck.
California voted for these environazi liberals and now they can pay for their whacko ideas.
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