It's regularly near $1.30 now. I would hardly call $0.10 a big gas spike, it basically swings 10 cents every other week as it is. Still $1.40 for the regular sucks, this summer, hot rod premium is going to be selling at a premium!!!
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It's regularly near $1.30 now. I would hardly call $0.10 a big gas spike, it basically swings 10 cents every other week as it is. Still $1.40 for the regular sucks, this summer, hot rod premium is going to be selling at a premium!!!
If they tried raising gas .40/gallon in the US this would start a riot but us Canadians just shrug it off and say" no big deal"
Oldkoot has it correct, we just shrug it off saying oh well i have to have it. Hear that BS all the time!
40 acres, gas in North Bay this week is running ar $1.23, figure that out.
(Diesel is at $1.49!!!!) OUCH!!
I just got a couple more jugs of gas for the plow and snow blower....AGAIN - and prices were all over the place in London I saw $1.30.9 down to the lowest around here at $1.26.9. Guess which one I stopped at?
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Here's the real puzzler: Why the drastic fluctuations from week to week and why such a big difference from place to place?
I buy my milk from Shoppers. It's $3.97 for 4 litres or just under $1 a litre - it's been at that price for at least 10 years!!! It doesn't change from week to week, year to year, or from west London to east London! I wish my car ran on milk! Of course opening 60 or 70 litres of bags could be time consuming and messy, Maybe I'd buy a cow or two off my neighbour and call it done!!!!
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Re: gas prices, Between North Bay, Sudbury and Sturgeon Falls there can be as much as 15cents per liter difference in Sturgeon, gas is almost always cheaper there.
Another puzzle is at times gas up in the Timmins area is cheaper than here by 10 cents per liter. (250 miles farther north to haul it!)
With Diesel here right now running $1.49, a gas spike of 10 cents is really going to shaft the truckers, and AGAIN is going to drive the retail price of EVERYTHING up!
With Diesel here right now running $1.49, a gas spike of 10 cents is really going to shaft the truckers, and AGAIN is going to drive the retail price of EVERYTHING up!
Except milk, which will still be $3.97 a bag at Shoppers!
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So figure this one, gas going to the US- Ogdensburg, NY comes from the Ultramar terminal in Maitland, Ont about a 10 minute drive to the border crossing, I've followed the tankers over. Price in US is $1.01/L today, here it's $1.31/L, guess where I fill up.
Seriously these people who make the rules for US.. have no idea... really no idea.... what its like to live payday to payday and actually worry about money
I drive by a retired MP's home everyday
He landscaped his farm added a long stone driveway has a lawn tractor a kubota tractor golf cart
Just had a wind turbine added to the back of his farm
Makes him 15,00.00 per year and he constantly bitches about cost of fixing his cars
Gas is $1.15 here and it goes up in the summer for the tourist season
but...milk is $5.79 at the big stores for 4 litres.
We do not have those little bags of milk out here.
They are handy.
One problem is taxes, in edmonton it was 1.09 desiel 1.12 Alberta has only a 5% gst tax.The biggest problem is demand if we had better alternative fuels we wouldn't have to rely on gas. I work in the oil field so I don't have to much problem paying the price because I see where the big guys have to spend their millions and the cost to get it to the pumps only to have the price doubled in taxes. A few years back I had a breakdown of cost per liter of gas and the government makes more in taxes than the oil company in profit.The federal government charges taxes on taxes if you can believe it!
Gas jumped to 1.43 the other day up here. Diesel is pushing 1.49. Nobody can tell me why diesel is more expensive. It used to be a lot cheaper in the old days! I guess cuz there's more diesel vehicles the price has to go up! I always wondered why the price of gas was cheapest in the Ottawa area. Must have hidden refineries there or maybe they pipe in the all the bs from our wonderful government and convert it to fuels!!!
So figure this one, gas going to the US- Ogdensburg, NY comes from the Ultramar terminal in Maitland, Ont about a 10 minute drive to the border crossing, I've followed the tankers over. Price in US is $1.01/L today, here it's $1.31/L, guess where I fill up.
Check out gas taxes and you'll see why it goes up & up. No tax money goes for infrastructure but props up pensions for retiring politicians. Google their pensions and between wasted projects and their mistakes, we are never gonna get ahead. All we can do is enjoy our passion for cars and friends and to hell with bitching about something we have no control over. Stay broke and happy!!!!! I've been retired for almost 22 years and I have no aspirations about being rich but I drive the wheels off my car and drive my friends crazy so that is good enough for me.
The game changed years ago . Its no longer how much you make it's how much you keep. a few years ago I made a whopping 3,000 , I could have kissed my accountant. Been chasing the dream ever since..
Roofing products, pavement , and plastic demands also effect pricing.... As processors can make higher priced yield items from the same product, the price goes up!!!
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Seriously, Germany pays $2.50 a litre. For awhile now.
We pay $1.60 for a medium Timmys coffee, $2 for water....but complain about $1.30 litre. I don't like it anymore than the next guy.....but what can I do to help as I fill? nothing. I need fuel to get from point a to b. By no means am I defending the oil companies.
Unless we all buy 10 speeds.......
Thing that bothers me is that we are an oil producing country. The US gets 25% of their oil from us and pays much less for it than we do as consumers...The difference is the taxes on it...Sure, we have healthcare that this supposedly helps pay for ....I think we have something to complain about
Seriously, Germany pays $2.50 a litre. For awhile now. We pay $1.60 for a medium Timmys coffee, $2 for water....but complain about $1.30 litre. I don't like it anymore than the next guy.....but what can I do to help as I fill? nothing. I need fuel to get from point a to b. By no means am I defending the oil companies. Unless we all buy 10 speeds.......
Germany is not 7000 miles wide !!! We have the second largest Country in the world, therefore towns are further apart than towns in Germany. If you needed 150 liters of coffee per week, we WOULD be bitching about coffee prices. Also, Europeans have access to very fuel efficient vehicles we could only dream of owning here, which I think the oil companies are trying to prevent us from owning by artificially keeping diesel prices high.
What scares me the most is that the price of petroleum jelly is going to sky rocket soon, and right now it's the only thing that eases the pain of getting it rammed up my a$$ by the oil companies.