Tis the season for price gouging again. Crude is currently 56 per barrel. Imagine the price if it hits 140 per barrel again. We'll be looking at 2-3 dollars per liter. It's time we had some price control over our natural resources. I read a story about the price in the U.S. it inches up 2 cents a gallon not 6 cents a liter like it did here.

Just looked at bcgasprices.com. Kamloops and Kelowna also have gone up primarily to 98.9c/l. Coincidence? Just our friendly neighborhood big oil companies getting a jump on Victoria Day weekend. You know, profits are down in the low billions and shareholders need to be kept happy.

I hope nobody expected gas to stay at the same price all summer. That would be like expecting the Fraser River to run backwards.

Just awaiting the comments from MJ Ervin stating something about price rising, refinery capacity, blah, blah.

Isn't it a great world.

Workers are taking pay cuts, led by the auto workers that build the gas eating machines. But then more price increases will be required to maintain profits as people stay home due to lack of money!

Food prices are climbing allowing higher profits for the grocery chains. Any thoughts on rising pork prices? World pork prices are down because of the flu. The beef BSE problem saw beef prices rise so that everyone except the farmer and consumer made out OK.

Maybe someone should ask if there is actually any competition in Canada. Isn't that how it is supposed to work? If you don't take this pay cut and work longer hours, I can find someone else who will?

Frank

Gas up for no known reason, you ask, no one has the slightest idea why. But as stated above, the long weekend is coming up. Oil companies don't know how many travelers there might be so they just jack prices up anyway. There is no shortage and no demand right now so they can't use that excuse either. It's just a plain and simple money grab and greed by oil companies. They raise prices because they can and what are we going to do about it? Nothing. Government sits back and let it happen, price gouging? No such thing.

My conclusion on this subject is that it doesn't matter what happens, people will complain. Next topic please :)

Didn't a bunch of people on this site "guarantee" gas prices would hit two bucks a litre last summer?
You know who you are.
Fess up!

When gas hit $ 1.50/litre people started looking for smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles and even hybrids. They pollute less and produce less carbon emissions.

That's the way to pay less carbon tax.

As soon as the price of gas drops its back to the old gas guzzlers. Those who drive them pay more carbon tax. Fair enough. It's the buyer who decides what the vehicle manufacturers spend research money on and what they produce.

What is better in the long run? Cheap gas or expensive gas?

NMG, right on!

The long week end cometh.
metalman.

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Sorry, your Fuel Additive = Snake Oil, why does anyone buy this stuff, many Shows done on CBC and it proves no increase in Mileage and one more thing I don't believe in Perpetual Motion. Have a nice Day and if you have the Money buy a smaller Car !

But don't give up your currently unpopular vehicle of choice just to go along with the crowd and save the planet by purchasing a new wonderbucket on wheels. As far as I can tell, it still takes a lot of energy, and resources from the earth, to build ANY new car, even the much vaunted hybrid.
metalman.

300hp + or I ain't interested.

Right on , have one with 275 Hp and one with
120 HP and wont ever buy a hybrid, check out what it will cost to replace the Batteries ?

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