Gas Price Gouging

[herbie]

So gas prices began rising this week in Atlantic Canada, and today stories from Vancouver tell of prices shooting up as much as 25¢ a litre,  days before the 17¢ cut by the Apr 1 removal of the carbon tax.

Not that anyone should be surprised, they've been prepping us with tales of soon to happern changeover to 'summer blends' and comments regardin how the boycott on US travel will boost demand due to in Canada vacationing. SO much for any  'savings'.
 

Really sad to say "I told you so" But the revenue from the hated, driving you penniless, making your loaf of bread cost $1 more to deliver, didn't stop CHina polluting carbon tax will now go to corporate wallets instead of available to fund you govt. I'm sure you'll all be happy about that.

https://globalnews.ca/video/11100354/metro-vancouver-gas-price-spike-raising-questions-about-carbon-tax

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, herbie said:

So gas prices began rising this week in Atlantic Canada, and today stories from Vancouver tell of prices shooting up as much as 25¢ a litre,  days before the 17¢ cut by the Apr 1 removal of the carbon tax.

Not that anyone should be surprised, they've been prepping us with tales of soon to happern changeover to 'summer blends' and comments regardin how the boycott on US travel will boost demand due to in Canada vacationing. SO much for any  'savings'.
 

Really sad to say "I told you so" But the revenue from the hated, driving you penniless, making your loaf of bread cost $1 more to deliver, didn't stop CHina polluting carbon tax will now go to corporate wallets instead of available to fund you govt. I'm sure you'll all be happy about that.

https://globalnews.ca/video/11100354/metro-vancouver-gas-price-spike-raising-questions-about-carbon-tax

really hate to tell YOU so but carney isn't really getting rid of the tax, just the consumer part, and he didn't do it correcty he just did it as a political stunt. 

So of course it's not going to have the impact we wanted to see.  You can ALWAYS trust the liberals to even screw up something like NOT taxing the bejeezuz out of people  

[herbie]

Too brainwashed with bullshit to comprehend that if you remove 17¢ worth of tax, the price should go down 17¢. Stand up for the right of OTHER people to rip you off as much as they can, dream one day you can be one of them.

[CdnFox]

40 minutes ago, herbie said:

Too brainwashed with bullshit to comprehend that if you remove 17¢ worth of tax, the price should go down 17¢. Stand up for the right of OTHER people to rip you off as much as they can, dream one day you can be one of them.

Hate to break it to you but carbon tax is actually a compounding tax, and with fuel price fluctuatons you may not see that at all.

Or you might theoretically see an even greater reduction, but that's not likely. 

[Army Guy]

3 hours ago, herbie said:

Too brainwashed with bullshit to comprehend that if you remove 17¢ worth of tax, the price should go down 17¢. Stand up for the right of OTHER people to rip you off as much as they can, dream one day you can be one of them.

Are you forgetting the summer gas charges...they come in this time of year....

[herbie]

Yes the so-called leftist MSM is pumping out every damn excuse they can to cover the ripoff.
THe change to summer gas is not happening TODAY and sure as hell didn't happen two days ago. They're feeding it to you now, so they can feed it to you again at the end of April. You'll all have forgotten by then.

They're also feeding BS about 'the war in Yemen" that hasn't affected Alberta oil, and "the tariifs" that apply to s different f*cking country as more lame excuses. And people are swallowing it.

 

[TreeBeard]

2 hours ago, Army Guy said:

Are you forgetting the summer gas charges...they come in this time of year....

Conservatives- hair on fire over gas price increases and carbon tax

Also conservatives - it’s a routine price increase.  Oil companies need the money!

[herbie]

So as of this morning, GasBuddy reported average gas prices had fallen THREE CENTS after the removal of 18¢ carbon tax.
By noon it was A NICKEL.

But here some are, justifying increases because the switchover to summer gas is coming up soon.
Heading out soon to see if they fell to 148.9 here, otherwise I'll make sure it's top news on the local community FB group.

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, herbie said:

So as of this morning, GasBuddy reported average gas prices had fallen THREE CENTS after the removal of 18¢ carbon tax.
By noon it was A NICKEL.

But here some are, justifying increases because the switchover to summer gas is coming up soon.
Heading out soon to see if they fell to 148.9 here, otherwise I'll make sure it's top news on the local community FB group.

Sorry kiddo but the libs are still taxing the people who make the gas.... doubt we'll see a reduction.

[ironstone]

What would energy prices be like today if all of these projects from 2015-2020 were not cancelled?

[TreeBeard]

55 minutes ago, ironstone said:

What would energy prices be like today if all of these projects from 2015-2020 were not cancelled?

You think energy prices would go down?   We don’t have price controls in Canada.  We would be paying “world prices” for our energy, just like we do now. 

[herbie]

Well lucky us, The average price in town dropped 18¢

Too bad for them, Foxy woulda been happy with the nickel. And other ximps coulda dreamed up more imaginary scenarios to justify how hard done by the oil companies are.

[PIK]

$1.28/L

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, herbie said:

Well lucky us, The average price in town dropped 18¢

 

Wow so you were wrong again.  Well, you must be used to it by now. 

[Nationalist]

On 3/31/2025 at 2:55 PM, herbie said:

Too brainwashed with bullshit to comprehend that if you remove 17¢ worth of tax, the price should go down 17¢. Stand up for the right of OTHER people to rip you off as much as they can, dream one day you can be one of them.

LOL...boy are you ever thick.

[ironstone]

16 hours ago, TreeBeard said:

You think energy prices would go down?   We don’t have price controls in Canada.  We would be paying “world prices” for our energy, just like we do now. 

Supply and demand?

And think of all those high paying jobs that could have come from all those cancelled projects.

We know Carney has no problem with the foreign pipelines he's invested in, he just doesn't like the Canadian competition.

[TreeBeard]

Just now, ironstone said:

Supply and demand?

You think we could supply enough oil to drive down world prices?  If we could, why wouldn’t OPEC turn down the taps to drive the price back up?  

[CdnFox]

Just now, TreeBeard said:

You think we could supply enough oil to drive down world prices?  If we could, why wouldn’t OPEC turn down the taps to drive the price back up?  

They have done so many times. 

[herbie]

It's clear these mor0ns will accept anything Big Business says as God's truth. If they say prices had to go up 25c because your Granny put on brown shoes this morning, they'll defend that to their deaths.

unnnggghhh the removal of the tax made the price drop, so demand went up instantly so we had to increase prices. We knew that it probably would even before, so we were forced to raise prices days before.
But you should see grocery prices drop as the delivery fuel costs drop, but not noticeable drop on gasoline delivery trucks because we're forced to pocket that too because some war, some time, somewhere will make prices increase. Just like how any US tariffs on Alberta oil mean we'll force  price hikes  in Canada to maintain profit levels.

Oh but all that's so much better than so much as a penny going to the govt that benefits everyone because some other guy might benefit from my penny.

[ironstone]

4 hours ago, TreeBeard said:

You think we could supply enough oil to drive down world prices?  If we could, why wouldn’t OPEC turn down the taps to drive the price back up?  

We have lot's of oil and gas reserves so why not use it?

I realize that isn't going to change much if Carney wins. He's already said he's keeping C-69 aka the no more pipelines bill. He is committed to net-zero for Canada while he has invested in pipelines in other countries.