"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit." - Gordon Gekko
Posted on 12/30/2014 8:55:48 AM PST by P.O.E.
The A$$HOLE Uber RINO/GOP-e Iowa “Governor” Terry Branstad is trying to raise our Gas Tax(s) here as well. I BLANKING HATE “Republicans”!
But forget fracking here in NY. The government hasn't bought up the lands yet.
Related info:
The state’s tax on gasoline wholesalers will go up by 9.8 cents per gallon on Thursday, as mandated by Act 89, the transportation funding law the Legislature and Gov. Tom Corbett enacted last year. Three days after that, a 5 percent toll increase will take effect on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
How much, if any, of the gas tax increase will be reflected in pump prices is difficult to discern, but if dealers pass along the entire amount, it would cost a motorist who drives 12,000 miles in a 24 mpg vehicle an extra $49.
“Since the tax is imposed at the wholesale level there is no way to predict what will be passed to consumers,” said Erin Waters-Trasatt, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. “Although there is one tax on gasoline statewide, prices vary widely, even within the same regions, because those in the business are working within the competitive marketplace.”...
The Thursday increase will push the state’s tax to 51.6 cents per gallon, one of the highest in the nation. The tax will not change again until January 2017, when an increase of at least 8 cents per gallon is due.
Tolls on the turnpike will go up by 5 percent for all drivers at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, the seventh consecutive year with an increase....
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True that. Our rulers know what's best for us. I foresee a day when they just keep all our money we earn and parcel out how much they decide to give us to live on....according to our 'needs' and 'proper' living style.
Sad part is, I know kids (in their 20s) earning around 100k (a lot of OT) doing (physically demanding) oilfield work and they got these jobs after a 10 month community college training program. NO student debt to speak of; their buying houses (cheap) in older wPA communities revitalizing the tax base locally and green policies will absolutely end most of that.
That’s definitely their “utopia”.
They don’t even like the idea of “money”, because it allows the individual to decide what he needs and wants.
I’m waiting to see if lower gas prices translate to cheaper food at the market.
Still better than GPS and mileage tax, but I wonder when that will come in addition to this?
I predict more bankrupt ,spend-crazy states(like mine-MN) will institute mileage tax AND a gas tax increase as a slush fund for bankrupt public union pensions.
As they go around the final swirl of bankruptcy,
they’ll steal everything they can get their hands on.
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit." - Gordon Gekko
Nope. It was the idiot politicians of PA. The gas prices were way up when they passed this tax. Here’s the kicker, it automatically goes up again in 2017.
Corbett was an idiot but what will be following him (Wolf) is going to destroy PA in the long run (not that the state is doing peachy as it stands now).
Also going up in California because of Jerry (Lord of the Flies) Brown’s “cap and trade” scam.
My son and I rented a vehicle and drove up to the NEast a week ago to see family members, couldn’t believe how expensive gas was up I Maryland/Virginia/Pennsylvania/WVirginia. Must be higher gas taxes.
Got back to Texas and filled up yesterday for a whopping $1.78 per gallon.....whew hew!
Here is the Amer. Petroleum Institute taxes for US state graphic... roll over the state for the breakdown.
Federal excise tax is 18.4 cents/gal.
NC is raising its state excise to 37.5 cents on top of the federal excise, making it the most expensive in the South, along with FL. And it is NOT based on the lower price or increased usage.
Lowest state tax is either in LA or AK but all have the federal excise added.
http://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas-overview/industry-economics/fuel-taxes/gasoline-tax
Alaska’s total of state excise tax/fees on gasoline is the cheapest in the US at 12.4 cent/gal.
Pennsylvania has no excise tax but other state taxes/fees at 41.80 cents/gal. This in an oil producing state.
Thanks. Doesn’t specify if it includes corporate income taxes, etc. Add in the income taxes from retailers, employees, etc. and I imagine it’s quite a bundle.
Money-hungry Rats’n’RINOS are looking at these lower oil prices as a golden opportunity to raise taxes.
But guess what? When oil prices go back up, the newly raised taxes will stay the same (or more likely, go up some more).
And as obamaumao said “neccesarily force energy producers to be more efficient”. You know with “cash for clunkers” destroying cheap transportation and substituting stupid shortlived “efficient” expensive as hell crap automobiles— for the “enviiiiiiiironnnnnnmennnntt” whaaah, waahhh!
The tax will stay and “consumption” go down, meaning people will not be able to get to work, and companies what little we have will shut down for their own costs.
but not at apple i-happy land of tech weenies and queers. That’s the “new horizon” LOL. Efficient production of “data” for. no. one. but the technocracy dictatorship. Reads like a sci-fi novel. The new world order.
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