I have been in conversations about the upcoming gas tax to be added in our state by Jerry Brown under the cover of “cap and trade” (Jan 1,2015). I have not studied this in detail, but in my conversations I remember when Jerry Brown was in office prior to this term, I had a propane tank in the back of my pickup and I burned propane as the fuel. It was less expensive and it burns clean. I believe really clean. Then, in the name of needing to add road tax to propane, Jerry Brown helped to get the cost of propane to be more expensive than gasoline (oil companies didn”t help the price raises either). If he is so worried about clean air, why did he do that? I don”t think he is adding any tax to the electricity that propels electric vehicles traveling on roads like he did propane.
Now, in this term in office, he has come up with a cap and trade tax on gasoline. Somehow this deals with making money for the government while trading air? I”m no expert on this, and I would appreciate any input for clarification. So, he wants this tax to be added to gasoline, just like he did propane in years past, so the air that comes out of the exhaust is taxed, for what appears to me to further pad the pockets of the government.
It is difficult for me to understand why a governor who claims he wants clean air, but shut down the clean burning propane fuel use, allows electric cars to operate on highways that are paid for by fuel tax (electric cars don”t pay fuel tax), and now wants to add another tax to the citizens who purchase gasoline and diesel. And, this is being done in the name of clean air! I am still confused and would appreciate some more clarification. Anyone?
David Rogers, Cobb
