After this report was published, a CARB spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement: "There is no 'secret' gas tax hike with California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The figure the Senator cited is from an incomplete, preliminary document released last September which is intended to provi...
California Gas Tax Hikes Will Hurt Families: Guest CommentaryApparently politicians in Sacramento don't want our state'sdrivers to have too much of a good...Spady, David
Some also contend the gas tax hike is a job killer for small businesses since they could hire new employees with the money they are now shelling out in added fuel taxes. Then again, labor unions and construction groups have released studies arguing the newfuel taxes will support thousands of...
To hopefully make up for this, California is considering an alternative to the gas tax - the Road Charge program. This new program will charge all drivers - including those with EVs - a per-mile fee, called a Road Charge. The more you drive, the more you'll pay. The less you ...
Thevideohe posted along with his message made the special session of the Legislature on Newsom’s gas price hike look like a total clown show. Calling for Gavin Newsom’s recall, California’s Dr. Houman Hemmatisaid on X: If this isn’t proof of how out of touch and corrupt@GavinN...
CALIFORNIA DRIVERS BRACE FOR POSSIBLE GAS PRICE HIKE AFTER STATE REGULATORS APPROVE TIGHTER CLIMATE STANDARDS This agreement, which gave truck manufacturers "reasonable lead time" to comply with California emissions standards, is known as the Clean Truck Partnership. Manufacturers that were...
Public policy strategy to reduce driving has historically included gas tax hikes or tolls, which could serve as a deterrent. But the state could do better at investments and incentivizing other forms of transportation like biking and mass transit, Handy said. ...
Jerry Brown and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León appear in Riverside in April to call for gas tax hike. All three are getting raises. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Gov. Jerry Brown, state legislators and other state elected officials were granted 3% p...
Gas Tax increases: The unelected California Air Resources Boardvoted in Novemberto approvenew gas regulationswhich will result in as much as a .65 cent per gallon increase in California’s gas prices. Gov. Gavin Newsom’sABX2will imposenew mandates for oil storagerequirements on oil refineries ...
And then Newsom claims, “Big oil was making these record profits at a time when Californians were seeing gas price hikes at the pump, despite the fact that the cost of crude oil was down.” In October,Sen. Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield)boiled downthe actual problem of Califo...