Don’t get too excited. 0bama was yappin’ at the Paris summit this week that he’s planning on raising gasoline taxes to pay for Global Warming.
Enjoy this fleeting moment...
*Rolleyes*
"The rules require oil refineries, beginning in 2017, to strip sulfur from gasoline, because sulfur interferes with the ability of an engine's catalytic converter to remove tailpipe emissions. Advocates, including environmentalists, public health officials and automakers, welcomed the news, but the U.S. oil industry said the rules will increase its costs and gasoline prices.
"These standards are a win for public health, a win for our environment and a win for our pocketbooks," EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said in the announcement. Her agency estimates they will help avoid up to 2,000 premature deaths each year and 50,000 cases of respiratory ailments in children, saving $6.7 billion to $19 billion annually in health care costs.
"Once fully implemented in 2025, it says they'll add $72 to a car's sticker price and two-thirds of a penny to per-gallon gasoline costs."
I'll bet it's more. When they reduced the allowable S in Diesel, prices went up by at least dimes/gal.
Obama would love nothing more than to put a heavy tax on gasoline. Fortunately we have a marginally Republican Congress.
These idiots are behind closed doors trying to make sure what ever they come up with is “Legally Binding” , only be for the West , the countries that will pay through the nose for this Scam