California is getting even more expensive

DutchmenSport wrote:
I guess Indiana is not so bad after all:

The price of all motor fuel sold in Indiana also includes Federal motor fuel excise taxes, which are collected from the manufacturer by the IRS and are used to support the Federal Highway Administration. Federal excise tax rates on various motor fuel products are as follows:

Gasoline $0.18.4 per gallon
Diesel and Kerosene $0.242 per gallon
Liquefied Petroleum Gas $0.183 per gallon
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) $0.243 per gallon
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) $0.184 per gallon

All states include Federal motor fuel excise taxes then any state/local taxes are tacked on in addition

I guess Indiana is not so bad after all:

The price of all motor fuel sold in Indiana also includes Federal motor fuel excise taxes, which are collected from the manufacturer by the IRS and are used to support the Federal Highway Administration. Federal excise tax rates on various motor fuel products are as follows:

Gasoline $0.18.4 per gallon
Diesel and Kerosene $0.242 per gallon
Liquefied Petroleum Gas $0.183 per gallon
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) $0.243 per gallon
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) $0.184 per gallon

We already have plenty of gasoline taxes for road work here in CA....we just don't spend them on road work. AND these new taxes won't go for roads in a couple of years either. GEE, if I can just through being in elected office without fixing the roads and streets...without fixing the water mains...without fixing.... Let the next guy/gal do it.

Stefonius wrote:
30 cents state tax for gas and 36 for diesel? Shoot, I should move out west. Here in PA the tax is 51.4 cents for gas and 44.62 cents for diesel.

Don't sell us short.....Its 58.2 and 74.7 for diesel.

bob_nestor wrote:
Most people don't seem to get the point that the increased taxes on the rich and corporations get passed on to those who buy the goods and services from them. I've always maintained that the only people who actually pay taxes are the Middle Class - the rich can pass them onto others, the poor get tax breaks. Businesses are only acting as tax collectors for the Government.

History disagrees with that viewpoint. Prior to 1986 (when Reagan eviscerated the tax code), close to 90% of all government spending was financed by corporations and billionaires. Now that burden has shifted to the middle class. When you give tax breaks to wealthy and corporations, they don't miraculously create jobs. They squirrel it away offshore as fast as they can, thus removing those dollars from the US economy entirely. This is very, very bad for us.

30 cents state tax for gas and 36 for diesel? Shoot, I should move out west. Here in PA the tax is 51.4 cents for gas and 44.62 cents for diesel.

These new tax increases for California are nothing compared to what's coming. A new "carbon tax" will add between 46 and 76 cents per gallon. I think it starts in Jan.

wing_zealot wrote:

colliehauler wrote:
While a lot of people don't live there it still effects them as well. California is responsible for a lot of the food we eat. The higher cost of fuel will be passed on to the consumer.

Since most commodities are shipped by rail the cost to consumers is minimal. In any event, when CA lettuce becomes to expensive people will simply buy lettuce from Az or Mexico; or not buy it at all and eat cottage cheese from WI instead. I stopped drinking coffee when the price spiked a while back. In reality, the people in CA are the ones that will bare the majority of the burden; they got what they apparently want.

I don't know if agricultural diesel will be effected by the rise in tax. Transportation is just a small part of fuel consumption. Commodities rise in price because of supply and demand. You are correct in that if enough products are,available from lower cost sources it should have minimal impact on prices.

WA, MI, NY, PA are all worst than CA in gasoline taxes.

State Gasoline Taxes

Everyone can thank the voters of Cali for putting the politicians in place to raise the tax rate to an astounding level. I guess that's what the people of Cali want - high gas prices. And this is precisely why I have a 91 gallon tank in my truck's bed so that I never have to buy fuel in Cali.