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06-07-2008
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| Moderator   |  I just read this in the Windsor Star: Gas prices skyrocket overnight across Canada Published: Saturday, June 07, 2008 Gas prices across the country shot up as much as six cents on Saturday morning as the cost of oil continued its record-setting ascent. According to gasbuddy.com, a website that tracks gas prices across North America, pumps in Toronto hit $1.359 a litre early Saturday morning, up from $1.299 on Friday. Stations around Winnipeg had been selling gas for $1.259 a litre at 7 p.m. on Friday, but just five hours later, reports of $1.329-a-litre gasoline were commonplace. In remote Bonavista, Nfld., pumps reached a startling $1.449, as the cost of transporting refined oil pushed the fuel to new heights in far-flung communities. The website averaged the price of gasoline across Canada to $1.337, up more than 20 cents a litre from last year. The hike followed a day on which the price of oil hit a record-high $139 a barrel, driving the TSX/S&P well above 15,000 points Friday morning before closing at 14969.55 points. A Morgan Stanley report predicted that oil could reach $150 a barrel by the July 4 weekend, typically one of the busiest weekends for travelling as Americans celebrate their independence day. I put $30 in my intrepid last night, it didn't even get me a 1/4 tank ... this is getting to be rediculous... it costs $40 in gas for my husband to get to work and back (an hour drive both ways) ... so were working to pay for the gas to get us to work and back ... such BS!!!
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06-10-2008
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| Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Vancouver Island BC | 141.9 
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06-10-2008
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| Moderator | The news this morning said there are places in Canada that are over 160.0 . only 123.0 this morning here
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06-10-2008
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| Diva Beaver  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NB
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Thanks: 4 Thanked 12 Times in 12 Posts | 133.4 Here in Northern NB this am. Hubby filled up (56 bucks) bought a break open ticket at the counter and WON 50 bucks.... so he considers it a free tank of Gas. LOL |
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06-10-2008
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| Moderator | ^ u must have a small car, or at least a small gas tank
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06-11-2008
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| Moderator | grrrrr.... it went from 123.0 yesterday to 135.0 this morning
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06-30-2008
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| Junior Beaver  | London gas prices were up to like, 142.9 but it lowered to about 130.9. I think Canadian Tire gas prices are the lowest in the area.
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06-30-2008
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06-30-2008
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This province's drivers are feeling the most gas pain. On Canada Day, British Columbians will likely be paying the highest gas prices in the country, thanks to a new provincial carbon tax that adds almost 2.5 cents to a litre of fuel and has turned service stations into the province's latest political battle ground. Motorists are doing more than filling up at their local gas stations. They're fuming about gas politics. Premier Gordon Campbell admits his government has a selling job to do on its new green tax, the first escalating consumer tax on carbon in Canada. "The government should look at themselves first before they look at tackling little guys like me," said Trish O'Brien as she filled up her fuel efficient Suzuki Aerio. "I do what I can. I recycle everything that's not nailed down. I drive a small car and take the bus when I can, and I walk." O'Brien said she wants to see consumer incentives to go green from the government before being hit with taxes. The Liberal government's carbon tax , introduced in last February's budget and effective July 1, will be phased in over five years to give consumers and businesses time to adjust and begin to understand there is a cost associated with generating harmful greenhouse gases. The carbon tax starts at a rate based on $10 per tonne of carbon emissions and rises $5 a year to $30 per tonne by 2012. The tax works out to an extra 2.4 cents a litre on gasoline, rising to 7.24 cents per litre by 2012. The carbon tax on diesel and home heating oil will start at 2.7 cents per litre and increase to 8.2 cents per litre over the five-year period. This was in the newspaper.
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07-07-2008
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| Moderator | back up to 138.9 grrrrr
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