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[vortoozo]

Here's an example of the site overwriting a past price prediction when it didn't turn out to be accurate.

For what reason, I have no idea. Ego, maybe?

 

In the above screenshot, the price for regular gas on 11/14 shows 201.9.

Now, it shows 193.9 for the same date.

 

 

This isn't a site that's reliable, and as Mike mentioned the media shouldn't be sourcing it.

[vortoozo]

I've been keeping an eye on trends for the past few months re: gas prices in Victoria.

 

Invariably, when prices drop it's because Costco drops. Co-op stations tend to take their queue from Costco dropping and they are always the next to drop. The others eventually move, some faster than others.

Pricing across the CRD is essentially being dictated by a single station. It seems that if Costco feels like pocketing a few extra cents, then so will everyone else. This could very much be the reason why our prices are higher than Vancouver, even though the transit tax in Vancouver is higher. Since there's no competition in price among everyone except Costco, they can happily follow Costco's lead and sit at 4-5 cents higher.

[Mike K.]

What muddies the water further is the price at the pump at a lot of stations isn’t what the purchaser is actually paying.

Consider Co-op’s annual kick back, Shell’s 3 cent discount for BCAA members, plus Air Miles, Chevron’s 7 to 13 cent discount after every 300litres through their app and a linked CIBC card, Mobil 1 and SuperStore, etc.

[Victoria Watcher]

All of which you can surpass in mitigating by driving less or choosing a more efficient vehicle.

Fretting over a few cents at the pump or your discount/rebate is a task for little people.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 November 2022 - 12:57 PM.

[Mike K.]

If grown men weep when other grown men don’t kick a ball into a net, I think we can understand why people like to keep tabs on fuel discounts.

[vortoozo]

If grown men weep when other grown men don’t kick a ball into a net, I think we can understand why people like to keep tabs on fuel discounts.

 

Poetry.

[Matt R.]

All of which you can surpass in mitigating by driving less or choosing a more efficient vehicle.

Fretting over a few cents at the pump or your discount/rebate is a task for little people.

No fretting with coop. They just mail a cheque every year.

[Mike K.]

I think having the Costco membership makes even more sense if you fill up on 91. It’s usually 10 cents more than whatever 87 is selling for, but at other stations it’s usually 25-30 cents more. So the actual savings is around 20 cents, if you’re paying $1.75/litre compared to $1.9x (last I saw at Chevron, which had 169 87 and 193 91).

Why not save $20 per fill up? Is that considered being lame now?

[Matt R.]

Wholesale club needs a gas bar, yo.

[lanforod]

Or another Costco. 

[Matt R.]

I don’t think Wholesale Club would put a Costco in their parking lot. That would be weird.

[lanforod]

Dangit, I tried. Can we get an Ikea on their parking lot instead, and put a Costco Gas bar only on Walmarts parking lot instead.

[Mike K.]

Fighting over who pays the least “embarrassing” amount of carbon tax among the provinces 🤦

https://nationalpost...-carbon-pricing

[Mike K.]

From VV’s Facebook page:

🔹April 1st gas tax hike will dent pockets by additional 3.26 cents per litre for gasoline, 3.84 cents for diesel as carbon taxes set to double by 2025🔹

BC’s next round of gasoline tax increases by way of the provincial carbon tax will rise on April 1st by $15 a tonne to $65 a tonne, or by 3.26 cents to total 14.31 cents for every litre of gasoline, and 3.84 cents more to total 16.85 cents for every litre of diesel. Additional levies will also be increased on fuels like heating oil, natural gas and propane.

British Columbia has among the highest gasoline prices in North America, while Vancouver and Victoria routinely post the highest prices among all cities on the continent outside of remote settlements in Alaska and Canada’s north.

At Victoria’s current gasoline cost at an average of $1.80 per litre of 87 octane gas, come Saturday, motorists will pay approximately $1.833 per litre due to the higher carbon tax.

By 2025, carbon taxes in BC will have just about doubled the 2022 rate of 11.05 cents, to total 20.91 cents per litre of gasoline. The tax will rise to 24.22 cents in 2026, and will continue rising in subsequent years.

[Nparker]

Taxing our way to a more affordable future.

[Mike K.]

Indeed, making life more affordable.

The carbon tax on natural gas is rising majorly, like around 50%, on the 1st.

[sebberry]

Indeed, making life more affordable.

The carbon tax on natural gas is rising majorly, like around 50%, on the 1st.

 

[Nparker]

That was John Horgan's NDP.

 

David Eby's motto "Taxes-Shmaxes - The Woke Will Vote for Me Anyway"

[Stephen James]

When CRD taxpayers nearly got ripped off with another Commonwealth Games by Ms. Helps and Mr. Black in 2016, I pulled the TC articles from 1990-1996 to see what happened last time. (ask me anything, I could write a book, lol.)

 

I bet almost no-one knows we're paying a gas tax today only locally that was put in place to help pay for those games and, like so many others, was just kept in place.

[Nparker]

Federal income tax was initiated in Canada in 1917 to help finance the First World War.