California’s 15 Cent Gasoline Surtax Seems Unstoppable

ailment times; font-size: 12pt;”>by Chriss W. Street

The California Drivers Alliance, a coalition backed by oil, agriculture, retail, tourism and other industries has tried valiantly over the last three months–running radio, print and digital ads–to generate a groundswell against the so-called “hidden gas tax” that could act as at least 15 cents a gallon surtax on gas prices starting on January 1. Yet with Democrats like Governor Jerry Brown still clinging to climate change politics, the gas tax seems unstoppable.

With gasoline prices having fallen up to 50 cents a gallon in some regions of the state, most of California’s 25 million motorists just do not seem to be very focused on delaying the next phase of the California legislature’s program to combat climate change.

The coalition’s big-bucks public relations effort struck out in the legislature in August, when a coalition-sponsored bill to delay the tax failed to receive a hearing or gain the support of Governor Brown, who may be eyeing a presidential run.

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