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[Matt R.]

Heck, many have natural gas pipelines directly into their living spaces. What’s the big deal about a gasoline pipeline to your driveway?

[Victoria Watcher]

Perhaps in the past it was more dangerous to have gasoline pipelines, but now we have improved valves, remote shutoffs and sophisticated monitoring. Things we never had when we started doing gas pipelines.

[JohnsonStBridge]

Fuelsrv already operates a mobile gasoline delivery service in Metro Vancouver and has a contract to fuel the Evo fleet.  

[Mike K.]

Maybe it’s good to control access.

People won’t generally break into a gas line or an oil tank, but they’ll want to steal gasoline if they can. They already do it by puncturing gas tanks in peoples driveways.

[Victoria Watcher]

Perhaps, but with it 3' underground and sophisticated monitoring for losses, maybe it can be kept secure.

[vortoozo]

That's a whole lot of infrastructure to service something that can move and get itself to a station.

Your house can't do that.

[Victoria Watcher]

Speak for your own house. Mine’s a single wide.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 May 2022 - 04:39 PM.

[Matt R.]

I was about to say …

[Victoria Watcher]

$1.61.9 Edmonton.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...untry-1.6443884

$2.14.9 Victoria

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 May 2022 - 09:42 AM.

[Mike K.]

It's not the supply that's the issue, though.

 

Besides, the extra 53 cents per litre pays for your future doctor.

[Nparker]

...Besides, the extra 53 cents per litre pays for your future doctor.

I doubt very much that my future doctor has even been born yet.

[Victoria Watcher]

National gas prices are continuing their rise to staggering highs this weekend, with drivers in Vancouver told to brace for as much as $2.34 per litre at the pumps.

Figures on the fuel tracker GasBuddy show the national average price of regular gas reached $1.95 per litre on Saturday afternoon, with provincial averages peaking at $2.15 in Newfoundland and Labrador and $2.11 in British Columbia.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...ouver-1.6453689

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 May 2022 - 12:41 PM.

[Nparker]

But inflation is at 5%. 

[Nparker]

I guess we know how the Province plans to fund the RBCM rebuild. 

https://vancouverisl...A3q4xrrD3Fa5Zho
 

...Across B.C., the average price was 216.5 cents per litre, while across Canada the average cost of gas was 199.8 cents per litre, according to Gas Buddy.

 

[phx]

I saw 234.9 this evening.

[Mike K.]

We happily pay $2.20. Why not $2.35? Why not $2.75?

Trudeau wants to sunset Canadian energy and Canadians appear more than willing to support their federal government’s energy policies, so here we are, celebrating the sunset.

[todd]

Why do they still allow production of gas cars anyway

[vortoozo]

I guess we know how the Province plans to fund the RBCM rebuild. 

https://vancouverisl...A3q4xrrD3Fa5Zho
 

 

Provincial taxes on gasoline are a fixed price per litre. Whether fuel prices are 99 cents or $3/L, the provincial tax component (including carbon tax and the BC Transit levy) is 31.05 cents. 

[lanforod]

^ true for provincial. Not for federal sales taxes.

[vortoozo]

^ true for provincial. Not for federal sales taxes.

 

I was responding to a comment made specifically about provincial taxes.