Peak Oil is dead of course but gas is $1.46 litre in Vancouver

dumpthemonarchy

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Peak oil means we're running out of cheap oil. Gas in Vancouver is now $1.46 litre. And the summer driving season isn't even here yet. The price of gas seems to rise with few dips. If there's so much oil in the world, why is it so expensive?

And we want to sell more oil and build new pipelines to USA/China. Stay calm and keep paying more for energy.


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Durry

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Purchasing a Litre of water is still more expensive than a Litre of gas !!

It's also cheaper than a Litre of milk as well!!
 

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I don't think tap water is as pricey as gas. Fools buy bottled water, its impossible to avoid buying gas.

There's so much oil around, enough for Keystone XL, Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan pipelines. Three in total will be built. And the price of gas keeps rising. A huge surplus is supposed to mean lower prices. Fishy to me.

Litre doesn't need to be capitalised.
 

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Purchasing a Litre of water is still more expensive than a Litre of gas !!

It's also cheaper than a Litre of milk as well!!
Is it? I pay 35 cents per CBM and 17 cents a CBM to flush it down the drain.

Peak oil means we're running out of cheap oil. Gas in Vancouver is now $1.46 litre. And the summer driving season isn't even here yet. The price of gas seems to rise with few dips. If there's so much oil in the world, why is it so expensive?

And we want to sell more oil and build new pipelines to USA/China. Stay calm and keep paying more for energy.


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You don't like the "green" handouts to TransLink? That is what you are paying for.

Fuel always spikes every spring because the demand skyrockets when plow and shovel hit soil.

Spring is also when refineries do shut downs for maintenance.

Three Western Canadian refineries are doing turn arounds as we speak. Two in Edmonhuck and one in Regina.
 

L Gilbert

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Gas would be more expensive if there wasn't corporate welfare to the oil industry. It's kinda like food that way.:
And water around here is cheap. We pay $150 every 3 years for 3 water licenses; the agri license is 23.56 gigaliters per year, the domestic is 1.66 megaliters per year and the power license allows 777 gigaliters per year. :) That comes to about $0.000000063 per liter.
 
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Durry

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The Canadian government does not provide any subsidies the oil industry in any way!!

Anyone who says they should list them!!

that should read "anyone who say they do" should list them.
 

petros

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We do it different up here. Canadian and Provincial Govts invests in the oil, gas and other resource industries to create jobs and get an ROI on the labour taxation and it's spending and then on the resources on two levels as dividends and royalties.

Socialism
 

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Fuel always spikes every spring because the demand skyrockets when plow and shovel hit soil.

Spring is also when refineries do shut downs for maintenance.

Three Western Canadian refineries are doing turn arounds as we speak. Two in Edmonhuck and one in Regina.

Probably the most lucid explanation I have read for price increases come the warmer weather - makes perfect sense to me. Thanks, petros.


Not that I enjoy paying higher prices but if I have too, it does help to know why. Here in the 'heartland' of BC we are paying $141/L in town but at the Grove it is %140/L.
 

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Durry

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Look em up for yourself. They're probably available through the gov't's own site: Eliminating Fossil Fuel Subsidies | Canada's Economic Action Plan

Couldn't list any, could you??

You gotta be smart enough to understand the difference between a Tax Incentive (which almost all new businesses get), and a government hand out known as a subsidies.

NDPs and Libs like to lump everything together into subsidies. But they are not to smart, where you stand is now obvious !!
 

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Couldn't list any, could you??
More like won't. I just don't feel like digging through all that depressing crap for someone like you.

You gotta be smart enough to understand the difference between a Tax Incentive (which almost all new businesses get), and a government hand out known as a subsidies.
Corporate welfare is corporate welfare regardless whatever tag you want to put on it.

NDPs and Libs like to lump everything together into subsidies. But they are not to smart, where you stand is now obvious !!
:D Sorry to disappoint you (not really, but it sounds nicer than what I'd tell you face to face), but if the gov't you say doesn't subsidize the oil industry then why does it say "Eliminating Fossil Fuel Subsidies" right at the top if its own page? Eliminating Fossil Fuel Subsidies | Canada's Economic Action Plan
 

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Is it? I pay 35 cents per CBM and 17 cents a CBM to flush it down the drain.


You don't like the "green" handouts to TransLink? That is what you are paying for.

Fuel always spikes every spring because the demand skyrockets when plow and shovel hit soil.

Spring is also when refineries do shut downs for maintenance.

Three Western Canadian refineries are doing turn arounds as we speak. Two in Edmonhuck and one in Regina.

Why doesn't BC have refineries? We need one.

Fuel used to just spike for the summer driving season, now it can spike any time. Refinery work whatever. We never heard these excuses ten-twenty years ago. Lots of oil, we need pipelines to ship to much of it out of the ctry.

Refineries create jobs, that's good for BC.
 

B00Mer

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Bitching about gas prices.. Nissan Leaf, 100% electric. never fuel again..problem solved.