Theway gas pricing works is such BS. I live in Abbotsford, about 60km from Vancouver. We are not part of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) and are not serviced by Translink or any other GVRD based services. The GVRD are taxed 7% for Translink costs among other GVRD road costs. We have, at this point, no additional taxes for roads or transit and yet, I see our gas prices half the time are either matched to Vancouver prices or HIGHER!!! Yet we don't seem to get any of that tax back to put into road maintenance...
It also amazes me how you can drive past a gas station and it's posted at $.997 per liter tehn you drive past again 15 minutes later and it's $1.089 per litre THEN you drive by later that afternoon and it's $1.043 per liter. It's ridiculous.
Here in BC we have prepay before fuelling because some jackass dragged a kid to his death a few yrs stealing $10 of gas because the owner of the station had threatened his employees that they would have to pay for gas runs, ILLEGAL, stupid prick. Anyway, with fluctuations, in a larger vehicle, you don't know if a tank is going to $100 OR $120... It needs to be regulated in one form or another.
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