Its a big drag on tourism for these parts. Very few have the means to pay for fuel to get to PG, much less go on an Alaska highway trip these days.

Its to the point we almost need a rail inter-modal service for large RV tourism with a port here in PG and another port in Terrace, maybe one up in Fort Nelson as well….

To the average Canadian there is no advantage that our country is one of the richest in the world as far as fossil fuels are concerned. Canada has no control over the resources, extraction and what the end consumer is paying. The multinational owners charge whatever they want. Once upon a time Petro Canada was Canadian owned but successive Canadian federal governments have sold it off to foreign ownership. All that remains now is a misleading name.

Check out Mexico and Petroleos Mexicanos.
Mexico nationalized the industry and resources in 1938. Ever since then the whole thing is owned by the Mexicans.

It’s not the gas stations individually that raise the prices, it’s the gas companies…don’t blame the little guys on the bottom! But I will say, there are stations that get the ok from head office to raise their price, are the first to do so and the last to drop it down. I won’t patronize those stations anymore!

We have a shortage of refineries along with the US forcing us to sell our oil to them below world prices then we buy the refined product back at a high price. We need more markets for our oil along with more refineries.

And the price of gasoline at Petro-Canda, when it was government owned, was where? Lower than that at all those other privately owned oil company gas stations?

You’ve just exposed the ‘Achilles heel’ of socialist thinking, Prince George. They always tell us that even though the price of socialised gasoline is the same as privately supplied gasoline, all the profits are somehow ‘ours’.

But did you, as a shareholder-in-common with all other Canadians, ever get a dividend cheque from Petro-Canada when ‘we’ were supposed to own it? So just ‘what’ did we get out of it anyways? The ability to huff and puff about how at least one big oil company is truly ‘Canadian’? Is that supposed to make us all feel better, that we’re being screwed by one of our own?

As for the Mexicans and Pemex, did the nationalisation of the oil industry there in 1938 do anything towards most of them being able to afford a car? For what good is cheap gasoline to you if you don’t have a vehicle to use it in?

There is no doubt whatsoever that we are being gouged, not only on gasoline, but on a whole host of other consumables which derive from resources this country is richly endowed with. But ‘nationalising’ any of those resources and their means of production and distribution, hasn’t demonstrated any long term correction. Anywhere.

The solution is going to be found in the way ‘prices’ are currently set, (with which there’s really not much wrong), in conjunction to the way that relates to ‘money’ itself, (with which there’s a whole lot wrong).

But don’t look to any socialist, and especially not young Trudeau, to ever do anything meaningful about that.

Trudeau is full of gas.

As a winter vacationer in the state of Arizona it becomes very apparent when crossing the border back into Canada there great disparity in the gasoline prices between the USA and Canada. In Arizona gasoline was selling for about $3.30 per US gallon. Even adding 10% for the difference in the US and Cdn dollars it still works out to less than $1.00 per liter Cdn.
Are we getting gouge in Canada? You can bet on it.

Stop going to Starbucks or Tim Hortons on your way to work each bloody day you go to work. Problem solved for the vast majority of drivers. Oh, and don’t buy that extra pack of cigarettes, that pop and the lottery ticket when you fill up.

It’s all about priorities. Which are screwed up for most.

If you keep on driving the big Gas Guzzlers
you can’t be helped . Gas is a bit like Interest Rates now, only one way to go “UP” .Interesting to Note: 1967 Gas about 11 Cents a Liter, Minimum Wage 1.50 an Hour, today 1.40 a Liter and Minimum Wage about 10.0 an Hour. Draw you own Conclusions.

$2.36 CND per litre in the UK. ouch

Exactly, 1fastm3. Some people understand that we are not entitled to low gas prices. And it is quite easy to make some minor adjustments to your driving and purchasing habits to make a big impact.

So what your saying is, higher fuel prices are forcing us fat slobs to walk to MacDonalds.

Squeeze the grease from your next big mac into your engine. Biofuel. :)

My simple one word solution … Prius.

To complain about fuel prices you must first convince yourself that your wife NEEDS a v8 Yukon to drive around the neighborhood and that you NEED a one ton dually to go camping twice a summer ;)

Prius, so instead of paying the money for gas one pays for an overpriced ride. Check resale, not good.

I wonder what higher diesel prices are impacting?

Prius. You ever read about their batteries are made?????

What about the cost of replacement?!?!?????

About “how” their batteries

Don’t expect our Federal, or Provincial, government to step in and order a review, they are both in Big Oil’s pocket.

Love the dividends.