Severin Borenstein, a professor of business and public policy at the University of California at Berkeley… The state's low carbon fuels standard, for example, adds $0.08 to every gallon of gas. California gas taxes add another $0.17. But Borenstein's data shows that, all told, California-specific taxes and regulations only account for around $0.83.
Borenstein is either ignorant or a liar or both.
California gas tax
$0.51 State Excise Tax
$0.18 Federal Excise Tax
$0.22 Low Carbon Fuel Standard
$0.25 Cap-and-Trade
$0.12 State & Local Sales Tax
$0.02State Underground storage tax
Total $1.30 per gallon
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To: artichokegrower
Here in Illinois it’s illegal for a gas station to post all the taxes on a gallon of gas.
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2 posted on
10/14/2022 6:24:12 PM PDT by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: artichokegrower
How can the sales tax on $8/gal. gas be just $0.12?
3 posted on
10/14/2022 6:24:41 PM PDT by
Paladin2
To: artichokegrower
I am in an expensive area, and I haven’t seen $7 gas. I think it was $5.89 when I bought yesterday.
To: artichokegrower
"Borenstein is either ignorant or a liar or both" Both!
7 posted on
10/14/2022 6:28:50 PM PDT by
SuperLuminal
(Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
To: artichokegrower
This was reason #5 why we bailed out of CA.
Just for the basics, it's very expensive just to live there..Let alone doing anything, go anywhere or buying anything.
9 posted on
10/14/2022 6:32:39 PM PDT by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: artichokegrower
Thanks for posting this California tax reality re taxes:
The taxing hogs in Sacramento lie about these gas taxes 24/7.
Borenstein is either ignorant or a liar or both.
California gas tax
$0.51 State Excise Tax
$0.18 Federal Excise Tax
$0.22 Low Carbon Fuel Standard
$0.25 Cap-and-Trade
$0.12 State & Local Sales Tax
$0.02State Underground storage tax
Total $1.30 per gallon
11 posted on
10/14/2022 6:39:59 PM PDT by
Grampa Dave
( Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
To: artichokegrower
12 posted on
10/14/2022 6:41:12 PM PDT by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: artichokegrower
They’ll blame the refiners, of course, and they’re partly right, as the refiners are having to buy ‘carbon credits’, and they are afraid to point that out...and hence the extra $2 to $3 per gallon.
...but then again, it’s what most of the people there want, since most were ‘educated’ there.
13 posted on
10/14/2022 6:43:40 PM PDT by
BobL
(By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 36 degrees)
To: artichokegrower
Special California Blends = ?
14 posted on
10/14/2022 6:50:47 PM PDT by
Tallguy
To: artichokegrower
mystery lurking in California's $8 gas prices Great post. But my answer to the mystery is that the mystery is why Californians keep voting D again and again followed by complaining?
15 posted on
10/14/2022 6:56:22 PM PDT by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: artichokegrower
That douche also sits on the board overseeing California’s electric grid. What a f-up.
To: artichokegrower
Soon they shall be recording gasoline prices on a per-ounce basis. That way, it doesn’t look quite so bad.
19 posted on
10/14/2022 7:17:02 PM PDT by
alloysteel
(A born skeptic is now living in a target-rich environment. SO many beliefs to challenge...)
To: artichokegrower
I thought awhile ago when prices spiked it was over $10 a gallon in some places...
21 posted on
10/14/2022 7:35:08 PM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: artichokegrower
Filled up this morning at the Costco in Torrance. $5.59 a gallon.
24 posted on
10/14/2022 7:50:14 PM PDT by
broken_clock
(Go Trump! Still praying.)
To: artichokegrower
No real mystery, high taxes and refinery shortages.
To: artichokegrower
The gas price at Costco in Denver today is $3.37.
29 posted on
10/15/2022 12:35:43 AM PDT by
POWG
To: artichokegrower
I tell my neighbors that if they didn’t vote “Recall Newsom” last year you must be thrilled with high gasoline prices.
30 posted on
10/15/2022 3:22:08 AM PDT by
cicero2k
To: artichokegrower
You missed the cost of producing fuel in CA with all the b.s. additives that drive up refining costs as well.
35 posted on
10/15/2022 4:37:45 AM PDT by
MT Mike
To: artichokegrower
California really wants to be European, not American
Californians have lost control of their destinies.
37 posted on
10/15/2022 5:28:05 AM PDT by
bert
( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
To: artichokegrower
The democrats now want another tax on the oil companies calling it the windfall profit tax. So $7 the $8 the $9 etc will be the result.
43 posted on
10/15/2022 2:51:41 PM PDT by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
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