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California drivers brace for costly new gas tax
Fox News ^ | 8/27/2014 | William La Jeunesse and Laura Prabucki

Posted on 08/28/2014 6:26:11 PM PDT by bkopto

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. ... Estimates of the cost of the tax vary. 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. A prominent state senator who helped author the bill estimated the cost at 40 cents a gallon. Environmental activists downplay the cost, but hail the impact.

"We're going to now tackle probably 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the state that are emitted mostly through transportation - oil and gas use," said Climate Resolve Executive Director Jonathan Parfrey.

The cost of the climate change law never was spelled out in the original bill in 2010, which did not even include transportation fuels.But any meaningful climate change law would have to address driving, the state's largest single source of pollution. By raising the price, officials hope to reduce the number of miles driven as consumers are forced to consider options.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; democrats; gas; tax; taxes
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1 posted on 08/28/2014 6:26:11 PM PDT by bkopto
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LIBs...don’t hold back! To be “fair” the tax should be $100 per gallon with the money going to EBT cards. To not do so is racist and elitist.


2 posted on 08/28/2014 6:27:52 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: bkopto
Like Europe. $12 a gallon gas all taxes and the people took it without even a lubricant.
3 posted on 08/28/2014 6:28:16 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: bkopto

Complete horse pucky. I want to know whose pockets it’s going into.


4 posted on 08/28/2014 6:28:46 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: bkopto

I feel sorry for the Freepers that have to live in the same state as all the brain dead politicians they have there.


5 posted on 08/28/2014 6:29:01 PM PDT by mothball
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To: bkopto

“But any meaningful climate change law would have to address driving, the state’s largest single source of pollution.”

Huh? Even Al Reuters says CHINA is the biggest polluter on the planet:

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTXRKSI#a=1


6 posted on 08/28/2014 6:29:27 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: bkopto

On top of that the City of Los Angeles wants to raise the minimum wage to something like $13.25 over three years.


7 posted on 08/28/2014 6:29:53 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

So all those wildfires are less polluting?


8 posted on 08/28/2014 6:30:25 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: bkopto

C’mon San Andreas’ Fault! Do it! Do it! Do it!


9 posted on 08/28/2014 6:31:13 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: bkopto

This will help speed ex-migration due to “the drought”.


10 posted on 08/28/2014 6:32:21 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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To: Professional Engineer

This is called progress?


11 posted on 08/28/2014 6:33:34 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

It’s a tax. It’s therefore going to the State Government. The Democrat run State Government. Need I go any further?


12 posted on 08/28/2014 6:34:40 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: bkopto

Bump


13 posted on 08/28/2014 6:35:27 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Professional Engineer

No water and suffocating taxes but really, really clean air. And illegals everywhere on Gubermint benefits.

What’s not to luv?


14 posted on 08/28/2014 6:36:06 PM PDT by rbg81
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>> gas tax at 68 cents a gallon

Does that represent the entire tax portion, or just the excise tax?


15 posted on 08/28/2014 6:36:16 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: bkopto

No griping.

This is what the citizens of the Golden State voted for.

Somebody has to pay for those millions of California illegals getting free everything thanks to a totally democrat run state government.

That’s why it is the Golden State - the illegals struck gold when they sneaked in.


16 posted on 08/28/2014 6:36:52 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Democrats love poor blacks - that's why they keep them on the Plantation)
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To: A CA Guy

“Like Europe. $12 a gallon gas all taxes and the people took it without even a lubricant. “

They’re made from petrol


17 posted on 08/28/2014 6:38:49 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
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To: bkopto
By raising the price, officials hope to reduce the number of miles driven as consumers are forced to consider options.

One of those options is hanging of officials.

18 posted on 08/28/2014 6:40:57 PM PDT by roadcat
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>>as consumers are forced to consider options.

Any politician that votes for something that has that phrase attached should be hanged as a traitor. Or shot.


19 posted on 08/28/2014 6:41:12 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: bkopto
but also to build low-income housing near mass-transit hubs and support construction of the state's high-speed rail project.

Agenda 21.

20 posted on 08/28/2014 6:42:20 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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