In my usual style of poor timing, I filled up yesterday at the full price.
metalman.

Bring it on......!

I am getting some quotes to install some storage tanks in our back yard. If I can get them put in quickly enough, I'll be buying 20 jerry cans which will fit into the back of my trunk and getting gasoline at that price till I fil up the tanks ....

I don't care how much it costs ... I'm gonna be savin' on gasoline come hell or high water .....

;-)

So, I save $2 per fill-up ... that means I can buy an extra scratch n' loose. The government will be happier that way I think. More money that way.

Who cares about gas prices.. Funny how none of the home-owners are complaining about the skyrocketing real estate prices? Gas companies and their shareholders deserve to make the maximum profit the market will support, as we have a free market economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market

Give that a little read, then give your head a little shake.

I wish we had a free farmers' market .....

Question(s) of the day:

How much money will the government have to provide to forest manufacturers in order to produce wood based energy products before the industry is no longer a free marketplace industry?

Or .. conversely

How difficult will the government have to make the economic climate for forest product manufacturers in order for them to include wood based energy products before it is no longer a marketplace industry?

Which, of course, begs the question: “Is the forest industry in this province and country a free market industry?”

Answer - Question # 1 - LOTS.
Question # 2 - MORE.
Question # 3 - NO.
I realize these answers are vague, but I feel they truthfully feel they are the best answers you'll get.
The only way these options will become viable is if they are economically feasible or, well, that is the only way. (!)
Big companies will not spend the money unless there is a substantial return.
Thanks for getting to the meat of the issue Owl.

As far as gas prices are concerned I'll have to agree with Owl again, 2 more dollars to fill up my car really doesn't mean diddly. Hundreds more on property taxes does.

You need to fill up at Canadain Tire,
Then over the time of 6 months to a year you save your 5 cents a liter canadain tire money. Then cash it in on a canadian tire gift card. Then use the card to buy gas.On a 8 cylinder I get back 300 to 400 dollars a year. Sure beats what the other ones offer.

If yuo really want to have a hope of making an impression on the oil companies...
RETURN THEIR CREDIT CARDS TO THEM...and tell them you can no longer abide with their over pricing tactics...

Oh wow good for you hadenough. I need to get more organized and rich.

UMMM what the heck do you drive that a 10 cent a litre price reduction, saves only $2?

Does your car or truck really only have a 20 litre tank?

On my pickup that equates to more like $15 a fillup.
Heck that is a $4 savings just filling up my snowmobile.

The price was $1.059 before the "price war" hit. The low in the article was $1.009. A 5 cent difference on a 60 litre tank is $3.00 .. so my hastened post was off by $1.00

Between high and low, there was a 9 cent difference. So that calculation would make it a $5.40 saving form one station to another.

I drive a 4 cylinder Camry. The 60 litres takes me from here to Vancouver if I drive with the cruise control on.

Now the price seems to have settled at $1.089 for god knows how long, so that makes it a $1.80 increase over the previous prevailing level.

Of course, going from the winter low of $0.899 (or even lower possibly) cent level to the $1.209 I saw in Vancouver on Wednesday, there is a $0.31 difference for a total of $18.60 difference which means I have to reduce my Starbucks visits. ;-)

I have no snowmobile. I find driving a car over the unplowed city streets gives me some of that same experience ... ;-)

The price difference was actually a 9 cent per litre spread....but anyways you also have a small tank on your vehicle compared to mine.

Non the less it pisses me off having to pay so much here in PG...we have a refinery right here, and yet its cheaper out of town.
And a barrel of oil is down right now to.

Sigh.

I dont know if anyone has noticed but , the price fixers have apparently agreed to charge a different price in certain areas to ward off the appearance they are in fact in collusion. And to all you "free marketers" out there , the free market should not consist of only two or three players and certainly should not be receiving billions of our tax dollars to help them along!