{"id":20285,"date":"2014-03-10T16:33:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20285"},"modified":"2014-03-11T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:16:19","slug":"california-lawmakers-agree-to-raise-gas-prices-40-cents-per-gallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20285\/california-lawmakers-agree-to-raise-gas-prices-40-cents-per-gallon\/","title":{"rendered":"California Lawmakers Agree to Raise Gas Prices 40 Cents-Per-Gallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With California\u2019s tax policy, the only certainty is that consumers will lose money.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/california\/Gas-Prices-May-Jump-From-California-Emissions-Law-249222361.html \" target=\"_blank\">growing fight<\/a> over whether to include fuel distributors in the Golden State\u2019s controversial global warming regulatory scheme. Doing so would subject them to the same cap-and-trade system applied to industrial facilities, and could add between 12 \u2013 40 cents-per-gallon to fuel purchases within the next year. The leading alternative would opt for a flat 15 cent-per-gallon carbon tax, which grows to 40 cents by 2029.<\/p>\n<p>In short, California lawmakers have agreed that gas should cost an additional 40 cents-per-gallon. They\u2019re just torn over how long to wait before imposing it on taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>This is what passes for deliberation in a state dominated by tax-and-spend liberals.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/trulia\/2013\/02\/12\/jobs-arent-leaving-california-for-texas-but-people-are\/ \" target=\"_blank\">middle class is fleeing<\/a> in droves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With California\u2019s tax policy, the only certainty is that consumers will lose money. The latest example is the growing fight over whether to include fuel distributors in the Golden State\u2019s controversial global warming regulatory scheme. Doing so would subject them to the same cap-and-trade system applied to industrial facilities, and could add between 12 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,25,4400,205,1119],"class_list":["post-20285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-carbon-tax","tag-global-warming","tag-middle-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20289,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20285\/revisions\/20289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}