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.
Credit: Sierra Pacific. Geothermal energy is the heat from the Earth. It's clean and sustainable. Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.