Cultivation facilities will be required to pay a 15 percent excise tax on the wholesale sale of recreational marijuana. Retail purchases of retail marijuana will be subject to state and local sales tax. Retailers will collect sales tax from consumers and remit it to the state.
However, fossil fuels continue to supply nearly 80 percent of world energy use through 2040. Natural gas is the fastest-growing fossil fuel, as global supplies of tight gas, shale gas, and coalbed methane increase.
Formation of coal: Coal is currently the foremost source of electricity in the world, and one of the largest sources of anthropogenic carbon dioxide. It is formed largely through the accumulation of dead plant matter, which builds up in layers of peat.