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Canadian gas prices (Toronto vs Vancouver). WTF?
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Vancouver (westside) = $1.09/liter
Toronto = $0.785/liter
It's been like this for more than a month. I want cheap fuel, goddamnit! I don't want to move to Toronto to get it.
Seriously though, any Canadians know why there is such a price discrepancy between the two cities?
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All men are created equal, but what they do after that point puts them on a sliding scale.
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It's >90 cents per litre in Toronto, and Vancouver has higher taxes.
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It happens in America too.
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It's not just the taxes. The oil companies have fixed the price. When oil dropped considerably in price on the market, the price at the pumps did not have a corresponding decrease. I know Edmonton was $0.804/L yesterday and up to $0.864 today and Oil maybe went up a couple cents a barrel at most.
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:)
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Another thing to consider is how close one place is to the distribution center. I live near east boston where there are some tank farms. I pay about 10 cents less then if I go 20 miles south of the city.
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Christmas break price gouge
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Are you talking bout the stuff kitties crap in or a measurement of gasoline? liter 
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how can oil companies fix the price in Canada when it's a utopia there?
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Originally Posted by Blasphemy 
how can oil companies fix the price in Canada when it's a utopia there?
The evil that is the Oil Company is so powerful that it extends even to utopia.
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except Canada is a major oil producer and its oil companies are indigenous. So the evil doesn't extend per se. Rather, from Canada it emanates
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Originally Posted by Eug
It's >90 cents per litre in Toronto, and Vancouver has higher taxes.
My brother says he's been filling up for around 77¢/liter in Toronto (he lives near Forest Hill), but only after 10 PM when, apparently, the price drops.
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How close or far you are from a distribution center has little to do with the price. In Mass. some of the cheapest gas is in Carver, all cranberry bogs, no distribution. Here on Martha's Vineyard we pay around $3.95 per gallon, but out on Nantucket (quite a bit farther out from the mainland) the price is about $0.50 less per gallon.
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Originally Posted by Spliff
My brother says he's been filling up for around 77¢/liter in Toronto (he lives near Forest Hill)
That's about right. My local gas station (High Park) sells for 81¢/liter during the day.
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Originally Posted by Spliff
My brother says he's been filling up for around 77¢/liter in Toronto (he lives near Forest Hill), but only after 10 PM when, apparently, the price drops.
Yes, at night, but only on specific days. Price fluctuations over the course of a week are as much as 10-13 cents.
Usually it's well over 80 cents, and the morning before you posted this thread it was over 90 cents at many stations near where your brother lives.
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Originally Posted by Mastrap
That's about right. My local gas station (High Park) sells for 81¢/liter during the day.
Petro Canada at Keele/Bloor?
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