Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the
benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.
William D. Tammeus
This blog isn’t a complaint about the price of gas. In fact
gas prices are lower than they’ve been in a long time. What frosts me is price
fixing at the pumps. Who decides the price of gas and on what basis do they
make that determination?
I live in Toronto and last weekend I went to Kingston for
the weekend to visit friends. Kingston is a nice 2.5 hour drive due east of
Toronto. One would assume that the gas prices would be the same. When I left Toronto
the gas prices were 90.9/litre. The bandits on the highway were cheaper than
Toronto at 89.9/litre. When I arrived in Kingston the prices were 82.9/litre
and 80.0/litre at the “no name” stations.
Would someone please explain to me how two cities in close proximity
to each other have an 8 – 10 cent difference per litre in the price of gas! How
do they come up with these prices? The price per barrel doesn’t change. Both
cities are in Ontario so the tax doesn’t change. What on earth accounts for
such a huge price discrepancy?
We have government people who do nothing but track gas
prices, so why aren’t they doing something about this? We’re all getting
screwed by price fixing at the pumps. Isn’t price fixing illegal? I guess if it’s
the government who’s screwing us, it doesn’t count.
A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left
in the tank.
Author Unknown
Make someone smile today.
Geri
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