Hmmm, drove by Petro Canada today, regular was $129.9, which means the Ultra 94 is about $1.40 per litre. That's about $114.00 to fill up the classic car for a day of fun. Predictions are that for a variety of nonsense reasons gas will be really expensive this year. Anybody else a little fed up with this?
They were that price 10 years ago too. They go up and go down. Prices are up at the fuel terminals since I last checked too.
It all depends on how much a bonus the CEO needs.
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True enough, I don't mind eating a $hit sandwich now and then to be part of the hobby, but after the pandemic, it seems like they are taking the bread out of the sandwich by cranking gas for the summer!
Recently got ticked off w/ price of fuel. Have been watching the evolution of the GM line of electric vehicles for the past 10 yrs or so. As it happened in March the Equinox blew a seal & pucked oil all over the road & our driveway. Under warranty they still hadn't had the part shipped in going on 5 weeks (Covid they said). That was it - drove home in a 2020 Bolt EV. So far love how the car handles & quite happy w/ the $ savings compared to gas. Will always have my street rods to spend the savings!
Under the carbon tax levy, filling up your gas tank cost 6.6 cents more per litre until April 2021. As the tax increases each year, the levy will plateau at 11 cents per litre in 2022;
It was about this price a couple of years ago when I started questioning the Nova and the 496 I built. It was costing about $20- $25.00/Hour to run around and have a bit of fun. Swapped it out for a Harley and now I can go all day for $20.
Same here riding my Harley is still cheaper than tooling around in the hot rod,besides,no shows,cruise ins I can ride my bike anywhere,and been riding over 40 years I still enjoy it!
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Same thing happened for me with my 440 Challenger. Was coming back from night out in Niagara Falls, had to stop for gas and it just wasn't fun anymore.
i honestly believe we ain't seen nothing yet pertaining to internal combustion power. when this covid sh!t finally gets to some sort of normal, herd immunity maybe, and they get this 5 G fully implemented our lives are going to see some drastic changes i am a thinking. this electric car stuff has been on the drawing boards now for at least 10 years with zillions spent on research, it's not going away. the big trucks are going to go to some sort of hydrogen/electric combination due to the weights and distances which they are testing now in alberta and around the rest of the world on a considerably large scale and when this 5 g stuff gets into high gear our world as we know it in our generation is going to change rapidly.
guessing something along the lines of how tractors and trucks replaced horses as the main power source, a 100 plus years ago, but at lightning speed today compared to those days due to all of today's technology.
don't shoot the messenger guy's but the writing is on the wall. lmao
Carbon taxes are going up every year till 2030 in the current federal plan. Since he said they are lowering emissions to 45% from the 36% in the plan it can only get worse.
Once they cannot get enough taxes from gas sales they will find something else to tax. Road maintenance has to be paid by something.
Many states and provinces are already implementing an annual tax against EVs and Hybrids since they don't pay their share of road tax. I agree completely. Also who is going to pay for the cleanup down the road when they finally realize that EVs have as big as or larger footprint then the carbon footprint they are taxing against. Wind turbine disposals after 10 years, battery disposals, Lithium mining that is destroying eco systems and people's lives all over the world. Don't get me started.
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Its not about the environment, its about generating business. I worked for the MOE for over 20 years and the only real solution to the global environmental concerns is to reduce the number of humans. Less people mean less taxes so that is not viable for a growing economy. The green deal will make lots of jobs, lots of profits, lots of legacies, just what it is designed to do.
Its not about the environment, its about generating business. I worked for the MOE for over 20 years and the only real solution to the global environmental concerns is to reduce the number of humans. Less people mean less taxes so that is not viable for a growing economy. The green deal will make lots of jobs, lots of profits, lots of legacies, just what it is designed to do.
i agree somewhat but the environment is being used as a catalyst to get it started i'd be thinking and probably rightfully so but they are trying to get there at wrap speed. as for the world population numbers i can't see that changing drastically one way or another in todays world. the bigger governments of the world, ie biggest economies, knew and have been planning it for years now knowing the environment was just getting started down the hill and getting faster as the ride goes on. you are right, no doubt it is about money but with a moral cause, the environment. it is coming back to bite them on the ass all these carbon reduction targets they have been missing for the last 25 plus years. it makes me think about the board game called risk and the pace just picked up a couple of notch's.
I love my truck, but it doesn't see much use these days. If we are going somewhere, we take the wifes Chevy Cruze. It has a 1.4 turbo, 40+ mpg on the highway. I just wonder after figuring the extra costs of an EV, cost of charging, the extra hassle of disposing of batteries.....is it really worth it?
There's a whole lot of infrastructure that needs to be built before we go all electric.
Like it or not the world runs on diesel. I'd like to see the diesel taps turns off for 3 days. If you this Covid crap has got people in a bunch, let see what happens when trucks stop rolling.
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Its not about the environment, its about generating business. I worked for the MOE for over 20 years and the only real solution to the global environmental concerns is to reduce the number of humans. Less people mean less taxes so that is not viable for a growing economy. The green deal will make lots of jobs, lots of profits, lots of legacies, just what it is designed to do.
And that is where COVID comes into play, boys & girls. It's called eliminating people that are no more use to society. Population control. That includes me, but they have to catch me first, and I'm not taking no stinken needle.
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True enough, but if the environment were the priority, Canadas population is less than that of California. China fires up a new coal plant every week. If climate change is truly the goal, it should be a global effort. If everyone in Canada started walking tomorrow, our impact would be negligible. Using Canadas resources to bring cleaner tech to China and India would probably get some low hanging fruit. Similarly, the new vehicle safety RFB (request for bid) went out late last year and is scheduled to start roll out this summer in Ontario. Do we have a documented problem of unsafe vehicles causing crashes, no. Will it motivate a lot of people to buy new cars, pay taxes and keep the economy rolling, probably. Will we see bi annual safety inspections for LDV's in Ontario, I would bet yes.
