Update: Yesterday, September 1st gas at a Shell station in Langley was 217.9 in the morning and 209.9 that same afternoon. This morning it was 236.9 in the morning and 221.9 that same afternoon. That's a lot more than 150 in Kelowna.
WTF is going on with gas prices in the Okanagan? Castanet is reporting that gas prices in Kelowna are around $1.50. CBC posted a chart of the lowest prices in Vancouver but on my way to work it's like $2.17. So clearly we're getting scammed. Metro Vancouver has a 10 cents a litre regional gas tax for Translink but that ends as soon as you cross into Aldergrove.
Gasbuddy confirms the cheap prices in Kelowna. CBC says the highest price in the country is 202.1 in Newfoundland but as I said it's 217 in part of Langley.
Paying More at the pump? Another Pipeline Would Help With That
Energy now claims that "Metro Vancouver motorists woke up this week to prices around $1.80 to $1.90 a litre, with some stations reaching 189.9 cents, as crude surged amid the conflict involving Iran and threats to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz." Yeah but they didn't start it. Netanyahu did when he got Trump to cover for his invasion of Lebanon.
That article says Iran should not supply the world with oil. That's because if they did, that would increase supply and the price for consumers would drop. Oil wars gouge consumers.
Their headline reads "Paying More at the pump? Another Pipeline Would Help With That." Go f*ck yourself. We already twined the Trans Mountain pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby and Vancouver is still getting f*cked over. That's because Vancouver needs another refinery. We send unrefined oil to the US and they gouge us when they refine it for us. Building a dozen more pipelines at the taxpayers expense for export to China won't do a thing for the price of gas in Vancouver. The only thing that will help Vancouver is another refinery.
Danielle Smith doesn't give a f*ck about Vancouver. She just wants to commit welfare fraud by having us pay for more pipelines to fill up tankers to China so they can make more money. She doesn't care about a refinery or the price of gas in Vancouver. Vancouver needs to renegotiate the use of our port. Vancouver needs another refinery before we build any more pipelines.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but when a group of individuals be it government or private business or the 7 sisters oil monopoly know that you'll take it in the ass over and over without doing anything about it....guess what happens next?
ReplyDeleteThat's right bend over!
Clearly, we are being scammed!
ReplyDeleteRoving blockades ie protest would be effective i believe .one gas station at the time . Continuously one to the next
ReplyDeleteLet's do it it's our dutie
I Suggested it 10 years ago as a passive but effective protest...nope I am an anarchist and people like bending over if it doesn't interfere with their schedule.
DeleteStockholm syndrome.
We really are that feckless, it's shameful.
I wish it weren't so.
I think it's worth having a sit down with your MP and MLA about.
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