Last month, Vancouver Island drivers were treated to the unpleasant phenomenon of gas prices jumping an incredible 12 cents in one night. As of publication, Victorians are still paying some of the most disproportionately high gas prices in the entire country.
The lowest possible gas price in Victoria was $1.459 for regular unleaded. Across the country, even in relatively high-tax Toronto drivers are paying as little as $1.059. In Edmonton, gas can be had for a rock-bottom 81.9 cents. Just across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, motorists in Port Angeles, Washington are paying the equivalent of only C$1.15 after exchange.
Even the B.C. interior is paying significantly less than Victoria. If you filled up a conventionally sized 63,000 litre fuel truck at a gas station in Kamloops and then drove it to the Island, that load of fuel would rise in value by more than $9,000 at trip’s end.
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