Gas Prices
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they're already bleeding us with gas prices. during the first big spike a couple years ago the price of oil and the price of gas were on a virtually one to one ratio. basically as oil went up from 60, 70, 80 bucks a barrel gas mirrored it being 60, 70, 80 cents a litre. oil peaked around $140-145 a barrel as did gas peaking at $1.51 in sept.08. then the world realized it could not sustain those prices and the mini crash happened where oil went back down to $65-70 a barrel and gas followed but not as far leveling at a low of 89.9 a litre. of course that's when the provincial government figured they could screw us with the carbon tax, and the gas stations piggybacked the bump with a hidden price increase, so we went back up to around $1.00 a litre even though oil was stable at $75 a barrel for quite awhile. then we had the more recent mini-spurt where oil prices shot back up to $105 a barrel and of course the gas companies jacked prices to the $1.30 they're at now. oil seems to have settled back around $90 barrel but a price adjustment at the pumps has not occurred. we might see a small one in the fall when the summer driving season ends, but probably would only be 5 cents at most. we're at the mercy of the oil companies and they will squeeze until we're all poor. our governments don't seem to give a crap so the situation is bleak here. at least the american government knows it's a problem and is trying to address it though who knows how successful they will be. releasing barrels from their reserve is only a small temporary answer.
don't seem to give a crap? hell, they give a crap... the more taxes the oil companies pay, the more the politicos have to play with and divert to their hidden caribbean bank accounts. same with the bank fees. oh they give a crap all right, they encourage prices to be as high as the consumer can bear
One of the lower mainland and BC problems are our "special taxes" - transit, carbon, etc, etc....
What's really ticking me off as well is that the pump clicks off when it reaches $100. This is a gas company policy thing and it means the higher the gas price the less I get in the tank. Doesn't make any frickin sense....
Is the quality of gas better or worse in the U.S.? If we bought gas at a Chevron station in Vancouver and we bought gas at a Chevron station in Bellingham, is the quality of gas exactly the same? I heard that in the U.S., it might not be as good or its just slightly different. I thought gas is gas, given octane levels being equal.
actually the carbon tax thing is a smoke screen - the doughnut smell is the only thing that'll get the cops out on the highway... lolActually under subsection provision ammendment under the BC carbon tax legislation a special additive is added to make vehicle emmisions smell like freshly baked donutsound:
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I wish they had it here. I dont put that many miles on in a year. I'd run pure 100 in both my cars.
Get them tuned for it, both are turbo cars.
don't even have to go as far back as grandpa. in the late 90's early 2000's when arco tried to enter the lower mainland gas market by taking over all the super saves it triggered an extended gas war where for a long period of time gas was in the low 30 cents a litre area. there was even a few weeks where it was 29.9 cents a litre. that's 14.95 for 50 litres. of course the arco experiment was a colossal failure and super save re-took control of all the stations.
I miss them. I remember the one near me, would give out a free 2 litre of coke with a fillup too.
Lots of them gave our free shit with a fillup. I remember my parents collecting expo 86 beer glasses or something.
With crude dropping $4.00 yesterday we should see the price at the pump down by at least a nickel today or in the next couple of days. Ha ha ha going under a buck a litre seems like the holy grail these days.
