232807
Letters  

Fuelling rage

GasBuddy is confirming this a.m. that Vancouver is paying 123.9 per litre for regular gas. 

They have a 10 cent per litre carbon tax. Kelowna does not have that carbon tax but despite that fact, we are currently paying for regular gas at 125.9 or higher in some areas.  Abbotsford is also in the non-carbon tax category and they are currently at 109.9 per litre.  So wouldn't that indicate we are all being over-gouged at the pumps by approx. 15 cents per litre? Supply and demand - um ... I call BS.

So Christy, tell us again how it is that there's no price-fixing by big oil when it comes to putting gas in our tanks, and exactly how much are you and yours siphoning off from these continuous and blatant rip-off profits being paid daily by already over-burdened tax-paying British Columbians?  Enquiring minds want to know and I believe there's also a few hundred thousand of us that want:

a) an immediate independent investigation into price-fixing between gas suppliers, and
b) substantial reimbursements paid to all drivers that have been found to have been affected by this price-fixing.

The Province can pay us all back the substantial money we consumers have been continually ripped off of for by these gas companies and, by its complacency and head-turning, also by the Provincial government.

Christy can then go ask her big oil buddies and get them to reimburse her.  The BC Libs and big oil are pretty tight, so shouldn't be a problem I imagine.

Cynthia Preston



More Letters to the editor

231752
RECENT STORIES




231436


The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the author. Castanet does not in any way warrant the information presented.


Visit our discussion forum
for these and other issues.


Previous Stories

233620


233784