Posted on 04/25/2019 6:32:36 AM PDT by C19fan
As lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom supported a 2017 bill increasing the state's gas taxes. When running for governor in 2018, he opposed a ballot initiative that would have repealed that same increase. It's 2019, and Newson, now the state's governor, is demanding an investigation into why the state's gas prices are so high.
On Tuesday, the governor sent a letter to the California Energy Commission (CEC) asking that the state agency investigate the Golden State's roughly $4.03 per gallon gas prices, currently the highest in the country (and well above the national average of $2.86 per gallon)
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This may be an every state raping of drivers with the sales tax calculated and added at the top of the costs.
The committee that studied this situation (unaccountable price disparity) after a refinery fire in 2015 concluded that they didn’t have the resources to figure it out, so they needed more funding. So now the politicians must have plans to enlarge the committee, increase its funding, and staff it with hangers-on and supplicants. The new committee will also conclude that they just don’t know why.
I’d guess that it’s a research tax by Chevron and Tesoro. Come 2020, they have to reduce the carbon footprint of the gasoline they sell to such a degree that they’re at their wits end on how to do it. I’d guess they’re throwing money at the problem (a problem created by utopian mandates from politicians) in hopes of a solution, but in the end the laws of thermodynamics are only going to be circumvented only by pretense.
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This looks like a dirty secret any state with a sales tax might have re gas taxes.
Perhaps California should impose gasoline price controls which will ensure tbat Californians will be waiting in long lines for their ration of gas. Better still follow the lead of Venezuela and have the government take over the oil industry and have no gasoline.
They are bailing out of California and relocating here in Arizona. HELP! HELP! Please God HELP US!
.98 cents per gallon
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/04/16/californias-gas-taxes-total-nearly-1-per-gallon-and-include-a-28-cent-mystery-surcharge/
And furthermore, a huge chunk of the taxes go to hiring unnecessary redundant DOT patronage workers and “connected” contractors. The roads, bridges, trestles etc tend to suck and what repairs are done are shoddy, over priced, take forever and deteriorate rapidly. Drive across the border into Wisconsin and it’s night and day.
We have the same issues in high tax Californicator land.
A family we know just drove from N. Californicator through Nevada and into Idaho and back
They couldn’t believe how bad the roads in Californicator versus Nevada and Idaho were.
This kind of crap from the Democrat legislature is to be expected as Democrats have no respect for the electorate. The typical Democrat legislator figures they can do anything, and just create some spin, some scenario they can pull to divert the blame, because the people are stupid, and will fall for any hare-brained story they concoct. It’s how they have operated for the seventy-two years I’ve been around, and they will continue with the disrespectful attitude as long as they believe we the people are stupid enough to swallow their crap whole.
We could fool them, and NOT accept their BS, but that might be too much to ask.
I know.
Sad.
Trying to rally my fellow Californians who are not brain-dead.
*sigh*
While your point is largely correct, there are also the matters of voter fraud and ballot harvesting — both serious problems in CA.
also voter fraud and ballot harvesting in CA....
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Yes. Please see my tagline.
This is a vital matter and we will sink as a nation if illegals and dead people in urban cemeteries vote early and often against American citizens’ wishes.
Judicial Watch won a lawsuit to remove 1.5 million ineligible voters from LA County registration rolls... but whether or not it will happen, and when... unknown...
That’s hopeful. We have to keep fighting.
I guess.
Although I’m getting to the point where I’m ready to bail...
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