Editor:
So it's about the gas prices again.
In mid-May, we went to Kelowna just in time for the long weekend gas price jump. Two weeks before leaving, we left 18th of May, the price per litre in Kelowna was $1.23, give or take a couple cents. Then on the Friday before the long weekend, boom, Kelowna prices jumped to $1.49 along with just about everywhere else in the province.
Just out of curiosity I checked gas prices on Gasbuddy.com. Kelowna prices are $1.37. Prince George is at about the same and even Terrace prices are as low as $1.37 with a high of $1.41. Good ol' Rupert, yaaaaaaay! The price plummeted one cent to $1.46.9 from $1.47.9.
We are being ripped off again!
Throughout the past month with these skyrocketing prices, we had consistently the highest prices in the province, even including Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, etc. where the GVRD tax is applied to the price of gas, and that "extra" is at least 12 cents per litre (last time I checked it, was back about six years ago). We don't pay the GVRD tax here so why are we paying so much more for gas?
There needs to be someone with a bit of clout that looks into this and gets things more balanced. It would also be interesting to hear from Chevron, Esso and Petro Canada, about why we in Prince Rupert are constantly paying the highest prices for gas in the province!
No bull about supply and demand and the high cost of transporting etc. There is no need for us to be paying five or six cents more per litre than Terrace and nine cents more than Prince George.
You think, "oh well it doesn't affect me I don't drive"?
The price of fuel has a bearing on the price of everything that you buy in the grocery stores in this town.
Alex Ill
Prince Rupert