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When California Motorists fill their tanks, they often pay The highest gas prices in the countryAn average of $ 4.65 per gallon is currently around $ 1.50 above the national average.
One of the components of the high gas prices in California is the tax of the country’s gas, which varies between 60 and 70 cents per gallon and is also the highest of the nationS The 10-center range reflects the differences in how indirect taxes on climate change policies are calculated.
Eight years ago, the legislation and the then city. Jerry Brown accepted a Great increase in gas taxes and licensing fees This raises more than $ 5 billion a year for rehabilitation and maintenance. However, the Californians are traveling nearly a billion miles a day, and the terms of the state over 400,000 miles of highways, streets and roads remain among the worst of the country- 49th place among the countriesAccording to a recent study of a libertarian cerebral trust.
The interaction of gas prices, gas taxes and the conditions of the roadway is a perennial political football.
Gawin Newsom Governor periodically blames greedy oil companies for high prices, while refineries cite the unique fuel recipes for the state, entangled regulatory climate and the general high costs in California for business doing. Republicans blame Newsom for greatness and suggested that taxes be reduced as a way of alleviating prices, to no avail. The 2017 tax and fees package survived the efforts supported by GOP to cancel it By voting measure Next year.
Last month, the legged majority democrats blocked a Republican sponsored bill This would stop the expansion of Low carbon fuel program This, they said, will raise gas prices by as much as 65 cents per gallon.
So, in short, this is the state of political struggle over gas prices, but what of the future?
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The state wants to ban the sale of gas vehicles by 2035 as a major step towards transforming the 30 million vehicles on the roads of the state into electricity or hydrogen powerthus eliminating the largest single source of emissions affecting the climate, while deleting gas purchases and tax revenue based on the gallon.
A few days after the installation blocks GOP efforts to freeze the low -carbon program, The two legislature transport committees deepened in effects reduced gas purchases and gas income.
Tanisha Taylor, CEO of the State Transport Commission, told legislators that maintaining the system – including certain transit services – will cost $ 758 billion over the next 10 years, but the state can only rely on revenue of $ 541 billion, given the reduction of gas sales.
The Committee is examining, not for the first time whether the gas tax should be replaced by some other form of taxation, which will require the owners of zero emissions, which now pay only a small fee to bear their share of road costs.
“That’s a problem,” said Lori WilsonDemocrat from the city of Suisun, which chairs the Committee on Transport of Assembly. “Although gas tax is a critical source of funding for transport improvements, it becomes less effective as a consumer-based revenue mechanism. We need to explore new solutions that guarantee that transportation of transport is fair and sustainable.”
What can be these alternatives?
A The mileage fee is the one who kicked around In political and academic circles, but administration will require some way of monitoring when using cars, which raises confidentiality problems. Another alternative may be fees that are common in some states, and California imposes on some bridges, but the state has usually been restless.
Whatever it is, the policy of applying some new source of revenue will be as thorny as the gas tax in the last 102 years. Californians are very sensitive to the things that affect their time behind the wheel.
