Gas Prices - Page 46

Trainguy · #**901** Posted **Sep 4, 2019, 3:59 PM**

Well, paid 0.99/L Can last night in Bellingham. Far cry from the $1.52 at the pump here. Mom says in AB it is 0.90 /L in some places.

BC is just plain expensive because they can get away with it. A combo of factors at play that we can't do a whole lot about except live with it or buy gas elsewhere when you can.

MalcolmTucker · #**902** Posted **Sep 4, 2019, 9:52 PM**

60 cents of tax plus GST in metro Van no? Plus whatever the cost of mandatory ethanol content. Plus at minimum the cost of trucking it up from Washington State.

bluefox · #**903** Posted **Sep 5, 2019, 2:49 AM**

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60 cents of tax plus GST in metro Van no? Plus whatever the cost of mandatory ethanol content. Plus at minimum the cost of trucking it up from Washington State.

53.5 cents per litre in Metro Vancouver as of July 1.

WestCoastEcho · #**904** Posted **Sep 5, 2019, 5:15 PM**

Apparently, the youth climate strikers who petitioned the Federal Court of Appeal were both denied their application AND are being forced to pay Trans Mountain's legal costs. Not sure which lawyer who advised a bunch of 13 year olds on the matter didn't advise them of the potential risks of doing so.

DKaz · #**905** Posted **Sep 5, 2019, 5:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Trainguy

Well, paid 0.99/L Can last night in Bellingham. Far cry from the $1.52 at the pump here. Mom says in AB it is 0.90 /L in some places.

BC is just plain expensive because they can get away with it. A combo of factors at play that we can't do a whole lot about except live with it or buy gas elsewhere when you can.

86.9 at Costco in Edmonton. The federal carbon tax will be imposed starting January 1.

But I have a theory that gas prices are proportional to the desirability of the place. I have to deal with living in Edmonton. And everything else here is freaking expensive. My water bill is $150-200 PER MONTH. That was $150-200 per quarter when I lived in BC.

Bdawe · #**906** Posted **Sep 6, 2019, 12:45 AM**

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86.9 at Costco in Edmonton. The federal carbon tax will be imposed starting January 1.

But I have a theory that gas prices are proportional to the desirability of the place. I have to deal with living in Edmonton. And everything else here is freaking expensive. My water bill is $150-200 PER MONTH. That was $150-200 per quarter when I lived in BC.

Also known as, gas prices account for the opportunity cost of keeping gas stations as gas stations and not as other uses

DKaz · #**907** Posted **Sep 6, 2019, 4:10 PM**

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Also known as, gas prices account for the opportunity cost of keeping gas stations as gas stations and not as other uses

I wonder what it would've cost to keep the Esso and Chevron downtown?

Sheba · #**908** Posted **Sep 17, 2019, 12:55 AM**

I happened to come across these solar EVs:
Sono Motors Sion
Lightyear One

mcminsen · #**909** Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 7:52 AM**

Granville and W. 41st Ave. in Vancouver, Oct.17 '19, my pic

Trainguy · #**910** Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 2:01 PM**

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Granville and W. 41st Ave. in Vancouver, Oct.17 '19, my pic

Geesh... The average price of gas in Edmonton is around 92 cents/L

That's 70 cents difference.

Makes me wonder why people still keep moving here when everything is more expensive.

SFUVancouver · #**911** Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 2:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Trainguy

Geesh... The average price of gas in Edmonton is around 92 cents/L

That's 70 cents difference.

Makes me wonder why people still keep moving here when everything is more expensive.

I must say that I was pleasantly surprised when I could fill up for less than a dollar in Edmonton a few weeks ago.

Alex Mackinnon · #**912** Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 3:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Trainguy

Geesh... The average price of gas in Edmonton is around 92 cents/L

That's 70 cents difference.

Makes me wonder why people still keep moving here when everything is more expensive.

The variability is crazy. Two stations within a 2 blocks of each other were 17c/L different yesterday.

mcminsen · #**913** Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 5:36 PM**

Last Saturday I took the bus to the North Shore and noticed the price of gas at $164.9/L at the Petro Can station at Marine Drive and Capilano Road. I thought okay, I've got to get a pic of that. I also noticed the Shell station nearby on Capilano Road had it at $152.9/L. But by the time I got in position to get a pic of the Petro Can they had adjusted their price to match the Shell.

s211 · #**914** Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 6:21 PM**

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The variability is crazy. Two stations within a 2 blocks of each other were 17c/L different yesterday.

I've seen stations vary by over $0.20 in a day. A couple of weeks ago, I went past a station at King Ed and Oak that was 160 at 8 AM, drove back past it an hour later and it was 170, and then later in the evening it was in the 140s.

The daily whipsawing in prices is interesting. I'm wondering if it's a technology-related issue, where gas station chains are trying out new supply-demand pricing algorithms maybe?

lubicon · #**915** Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 6:33 PM**

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I've seen stations vary by over $0.20 in a day. A couple of weeks ago, I went past a station at King Ed and Oak that was 160 at 8 AM, drove back past it an hour later and it was 170, and then later in the evening it was in the 140s.

The daily whipsawing in prices is interesting. I'm wondering if it's a technology-related issue, where gas station chains are trying out new supply-demand pricing algorithms maybe?

We're beginning to see variations over the day to take advantage of traffic patterns. Increase prices during the morning and afternoon rush when people are likely to be driving. Lower prices during slow times as an attractant to the few vehicles that are out.

s211 · #**916** Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 7:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by lubicon

We're beginning to see variations over the day to take advantage of traffic patterns. Increase prices during the morning and afternoon rush when people are likely to be driving. Lower prices during slow times as an attractant to the few vehicles that are out.

Yes. Certainly, a better time to buy is in the late evening.

bluefox · #**917** Posted **Oct 19, 2019, 3:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

Last Saturday I took the bus to the North Shore and noticed the price of gas at $164.9/L at the Petro Can station at Marine Drive and Capilano Road. I thought okay, I've got to get a pic of that. I also noticed the Shell station nearby on Capilano Road had it at $152.9/L. But by the time I got in position to get a pic of the Petro Can they had adjusted their price to match the Shell.

165.9 at Petro-Canada at Cypress and West 4th this morning. Creeping up ever so slowly.

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Originally Posted by lubicon

We're beginning to see variations over the day to take advantage of traffic patterns. Increase prices during the morning and afternoon rush when people are likely to be driving. Lower prices during slow times as an attractant to the few vehicles that are out.

I'm also noticing the price drops are happening later in the evening than they usually do. Trying to squeeze every last buck out of those pumps.

Klazu · #**918** Posted **Oct 19, 2019, 3:33 PM**

So, it looks like Horgan's inquiry did nothing at all. Price gauging continues to be rampart.

WarrenC12 · #**919** Posted **Oct 19, 2019, 3:40 PM**

Never a better time to go electric...

p78hub · #**920** Posted **Oct 19, 2019, 10:06 PM**

Don't prices usually start to fall after Thanksgiving? I understand the increases (as stupid as they are) leading up to the long weekend, but we're well past that now and it's a long while before another high-travel period. Is another refinery we rely on offline for maintenance again?