Comments on: CARB rejects delay for ‘hidden gas tax’

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:55:01 +0000

In reply to Dork.

not to mentioned that these fools push for more and more government, and then ask for tax credits since it is too expensive in the state to handle movie and tv production – you cant make this stuff up…yet the public just does not pay attention

By: Dork

Dork — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:42:18 +0000

I would like to remind everyone that it was HOLLYWOOD that hoisted this crap upon us, so next time you fill your gas tank with all that expensive CARBON BASED ENERGY as it takes all the money you have just to go to work, Can you REALLY AFFORD to Waste your hard earned dollars on a MOVIE or ENTERTAINMENT VENUE put on by the very people that GAVE YOU THIS TAX ???

By: bob

bob — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:29:15 +0000

Did Bill McKinney really think pleading to thieves would do any good?

By: Kathy Hamilton

Kathy Hamilton — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:51:09 +0000

Rumor has it that the Legislators were blocked from presenting bills that would have delayed this action until further study because of the impact this will have on the gasoline prices at the pump. They never even got those bills into committee, let alone out of committee. The governor wants his 25% of revenues from the cap-and-trade auctions for his high-speed rail program. Increasing the revenues means more money for his program. In 8 auctions the revenue totals have been right under $900 million in TWO years. His beloved program needs $4 billion per year so the revenue would have to increase to $16 billion to get his 4. Impossible. And two lawsuits are moving along in court questioning if cap-and-trade is a tax and if the high-speed rail project is worthy to receive the money under AB-32. It is estimated to be a polluter for decades, only very dirty politics allows this.

By: Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:07:10 +0000

The primary thing AB32 has done is to generate millions of dollars of income to the government at the expense of the financially challenged. The hidden gas tax that is coming in January is another great way to hit the financially challenged with another cost! Lower income folks spend more as a percentage of their income on energy and work in industries that are most impacted by job losses. AB32 was implemented in 2006 when CA contributed a minuscule 1% to the worlds GHG’s. Now 8 years later we have higher costs for energy and higher costs for every industry that relies on energy and the by-products from oil and we still have that 1% minuscule contribution to the World’s GHG’s.