[artichokegrower]

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

[Lurker]

Here in Illinois it’s illegal for a gas station to post all the taxes on a gallon of gas.

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[Paladin2]

How can the sales tax on $8/gal. gas be just $0.12?

[nickcarraway]

I am in an expensive area, and I haven’t seen $7 gas. I think it was $5.89 when I bought yesterday.

[SuperLuminal]

"Borenstein is either ignorant or a liar or both"

Both!

[dragnet2]

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.

[Grampa Dave]

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

[Openurmind]

That is correct.

https://www.cbs8.com/article/traffic/gas-prices/gap-between-californias-gas-prices-and-the-us-has-never-been-larger/509-17522867-a344-4cbc-bc5d-ac617eb21268

[BobL]

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.

[Tallguy]

Special California Blends = ?

[frank ballenger]

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?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

That douche also sits on the board overseeing California’s electric grid. What a f-up.

[alloysteel]

Soon they shall be recording gasoline prices on a per-ounce basis. That way, it doesn’t look quite so bad.

[Secret Agent Man]

I thought awhile ago when prices spiked it was over $10 a gallon in some places...

[broken_clock]

Filled up this morning at the Costco in Torrance. $5.59 a gallon.

[Captain Peter Blood]

No real mystery, high taxes and refinery shortages.

[POWG]

The gas price at Costco in Denver today is $3.37.

[cicero2k]

I tell my neighbors that if they didn’t vote “Recall Newsom” last year you must be thrilled with high gasoline prices.

[MT Mike]

You missed the cost of producing fuel in CA with all the b.s. additives that drive up refining costs as well.

[bert]

California really wants to be European, not American

Californians have lost control of their destinies.

[minnesota_bound]

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.