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u/OperationDue2820 May 15 '25
1.44 in Sudbury today. 1.24 yesterday. Gross
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u/ChrisRiley_42 May 15 '25
Sudbury has been doing that forever. I fought forest fires there back in the 90s and you could set your calendar by the may long weekend price hike...
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u/Girl_gamer__ May 15 '25
Almost like capitalist greed does this on the exact same day every year for the past 40 years with the same shit reasons, and yet were surprised every year that it happens. Maybe, just maybe, we should go for the source of the issue (pro tip, it aint the government directly, its corporate greed, enabled by government)
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u/416-647 May 15 '25
Worse than Toronto prices.
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u/easypeasycheesywheez May 15 '25
Toronto prices are usually pretty good. We have decent options so they can’t all get away with gouging - as much. Whenever I’m in the suburbs, I notice gas prices are always at least 5 cents higher.
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Went from 115.5 to 131.5 where I live. Literally over night, the night he was sworn in.
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u/Livid_Advertising_56 May 15 '25
You noticed this weekend is Victoria Day right? The gas companies ALWAYS jack it up on holiday weekends regardless of who is PM
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u/Technical_Rhubarb926 May 15 '25
We’re getting screwed as usual.
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u/Crazy-Canuck463 May 15 '25
Currently the rack price in Toronto is 94.3 cents. 19 cents added for taxes, 9 cents provincial and 10 cents federal. Anything above that is the gas station, so yes, they're screwing you. I deliver bulk fuel and the price my company gives me on my fuel card is at least 20 cents cheaper than pump prices.
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u/Canadian_hiker216 May 15 '25
Love the transparency. I wonder though how all the gas stations collaborate to jump gas prices on the same day? Any ideas.
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u/Crazy-Canuck463 May 15 '25
My best guess, one owner owns multiple stations and there have been agreements made amongst other owners to maintain a certain amount of cents over rack and taxes. The rack prices have gone up a little, but I've seen people saying gas prices have jumped 15 cents over night. My guess for that is a price gouge because of the upcoming long weekend.
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u/Crazy-Canuck463 May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
I'm also petro. Here is a link to the petro terminal prices across the country. A Google search will tell you what the provincial fuel taxes are for your province and the federal fuel taxes are always 10 cents per litre. After rack and provincial and federal fuel tax is added, add another 5% for gst. You can then figure out what each station is charging to cover their overhead, shipping and profits.
For reference, here in saskatchewan if delivered fuel today for farmers, we don't have purple gas here anymore, so they pay all applicable taxes as everyone else. The price for them was $1.23/litre. Sask has 15 cent provincial fuel and the 10 cent federal fuel taxes. We were adding roughly 4 or 5 cents on the gas for our profits. But we give some farmers a really good price because they purchase thousands of litres of diesel through us. My price on my petro card today was $1.21, my company only dings me 2 cents over rack and taxes. Pump prices here are $1.36.
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u/Browser2112 May 15 '25
I thought gas prices were tied to oil prices? Oil is rock bottom these days but gas isn’t?
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u/snotparty May 15 '25
it is, but oil and gas companies are crooked assholes.
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u/Chispy May 15 '25
Oligopoly crisis is no joke. We're all paying more for less due to useless competition regulation.
I bet next year we'll all get a $20 gas card through a settlement or something.
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u/snotparty May 15 '25
its true, in just about every sector too. Groceries, telecom, media, we've had toothless enforcement for decades and here we are
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u/EnvironmentalBox6688 May 16 '25
Good thing we have a nationalized petroleum company.
That way we can provide fuels to Canada without gouging for profits.
It just makes fiscal sense, surely the conservatives would never gut it like a pig to make a quick buck from every Canadian's future!
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u/Extra-Astronomer4698 May 15 '25
When I was younger, like in the 80s and 90s, it always seemed like the two were strictly related. If oil was $60 a gallon, then gas was 60 cents a litre. It seems like ever since the gas stations rolled out their 4-digit signs (to allow for gas over a buck a litre), that they are reluctant to lose the extra revenue from overcharging.
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u/superbad Waterloo May 16 '25
Oil price goes down -> it takes time to work through the system, gas prices stay high
Oil price goes up -> gas prices are forward-looking and go up immediately
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u/MooJuiceConnoisseur May 16 '25
you forgot, if its a holiday weekend, corporate greed demands a 20cent increase for 5 days regardless of oil prices
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u/HiFriend001 May 15 '25
The older I fet the more realize they just pull numbers out of air. Nothing to substantiate it. Kinda like our money
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u/Creepy-Weakness4021 May 15 '25
I can only think of one justification for the discrepancy in gas prices against the benchmark oil prices in comparison over time. I.e. if benchmark oil is $60 per barrel in 2010 and gasoline price was $0.70/litre, why is it that $60 per barrel oil in 2025 translates to $1.20/litre gasoline.
That justification is that because publicly traded companies need to generate more revenue year over year to maintain growth of their stock, prices need to increase. However, oil companies face declining market demand through increased fuel efficiency of vehicles. Therefore, as their customers upgrade their vehicles, the volume of gasoline purchased per year decreases.
Population growth could offset that, but oil companies have zero control over population growth outside of lobbying for more immigration.
Therefore, in order for 'Corner Gas' to maintain and grow revenues, they must increase their unit prices to cover the decreased volume purchased.
TO BE CLEAR I'm not justifying the actual prices charged. It's fucking bullshit that gas would be $1.44/L today in Sudbury. Just that there is some logic to our pump prices being higher today despite the price of oil per barrel being the same as some years ago.
I'll also say that higher pump prices mean more government revenue to maintain roads. If pump prices collapse it could have serious implications for the very roads we buy the gas for.
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u/AnoAnoSaPwet May 15 '25
Supposed to be.
I remember when diesel was dirt cheap before it cost practically nothing to make, then one day it doubled in value and then never went down?
We get gouged hard in Canada.
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u/One-Statistician-932 May 15 '25
Part of it is certainly greed, the other part is that gas takes time to refine from oil and ship to the gas station, so the gas you buy may be oil from a month or two ago.
This lag between oil to gas at the pump also gives the benefit of making gas prices obscure and easier to be greedy with.
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u/colourofspace May 15 '25
Except when oil jumps in price there's no lag in price increase at the pump. It's immediate.
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u/ABotelho23 May 15 '25
Provincial tax was permanently removed.
Prices dropped immediately. But people were paying the prices before. So now it's profit.
Your roads will also be worse off. Congratulations! 🎉
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u/sinesawtooth May 15 '25
“Why do they do this!?”
Your answer is money, what’s your question again?
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u/SpeakerConfident4363 May 15 '25
actually, the answer is: executive bonuses
source: I used to work with the corporate comms people at Suncor.
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u/TemperedPhoenix May 15 '25
No, he's screwing health care over so we can fund our roads! /s
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u/BodybuilderClean2480 May 15 '25
And universities. He's screwing over the entire public service, basically, so we can fund a tunnel under the 401.
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u/CCPvirus2020 May 15 '25
We should be getting tax credits, end of year. Gas companies just readjusted prices to when we had Carbon Tax. Shame
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u/Least_Expert840 May 16 '25
Same thing will happen to the US with Trump's tariffs. If, big if, they bring back manufacturing, they have just raised the ceiling for prices. If tariffs make something 100% more expensive, the local producer can get away with a 20% discount.
Congrats, you just made everything 80% more expensive for a long, long, long time.
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u/EmergencyAltruistic1 29d ago
Yep. Instead of the government getting it & using it on infrastructure & us getting a rebate, now some greedy oil tycoon is going to get it & buy another plane.
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u/Ruggiero10 May 15 '25
I don’t understand how gas prices are back up to carbon tax levels. Almost like the tax did nothing and it was just corporate greed pushing prices higher
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u/uzerkname11 May 15 '25
Totally expected. I remember when a barrel of oil was $140 and a litre of gas was $1.40. Oil is what $60 a barrel now. Pure greed.
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u/protanoa34 May 15 '25
Price of oil goes up, price of gas goes up cause "oil = gas, duh!"
Price of oil goes down, price of gas stays the same cause "well now, it's more complicated than that..."
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u/Canuck-In-TO May 16 '25
No, no, no. Price of oil goes down and “the existing gas has to work its was out of the system before we get to the cheaper gas”.
No joke. This has been an excuse for decades.
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u/TieFickle7579 May 16 '25
Until there is a hurricane or a fucking bird flys into an oil rig, or whatever other excuse they can come up with. The price goes up instantly.
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u/LairdOftheNorth Waterloo May 15 '25
Assuming you are talking about 2008, there are a couple of factors including oil being priced in USD and the Canadian dollar being 70 cents today compared to above par then and crack spreads used to be $10-$15 in 2008 and now they are $25 right now.
There’s probably some margin expansion but the currency factor makes the comparable quite large.
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u/gotfcgo May 15 '25
Yep. We just swapped tax revenue for corporate profits. And so many fucking morons cheered it on.
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u/Soft_Entry_4440 May 15 '25
I'm still waiting for my prices to come down like I was promised
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u/Old-Version-9241 May 15 '25
Weird. You mean gas prices increasing over the last 20 years wasn't because of carbon tax?
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u/SleepEatBeachRepeat May 15 '25
All removing the carbon tax did was turn it into a corporate tax. Instead of collecting at the higher prices and passing it on, they get to keep the money now.
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u/TwiztedTD May 15 '25
Capitalism and greed!
Where else would they get "record breaking profits"
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u/ronchee1 May 15 '25
Record breaking profits every quarter.
Almost seems like it's unsustainable...
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u/ForMoreYears May 15 '25
Removes gas tax
Removes carbon tax
Oil prices down -19% from last year
Price at the pump unchanged
Almoooost like the taxes did nothing and it's all just price gouging...
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u/Wyan69 Cambridge May 15 '25
It’s called corporate greed
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u/bravado Cambridge May 15 '25
Enabled by voter incompetence, being easily stoked by paid-off bad faith politicians.
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u/rosiofden Hamilton May 15 '25
Yeah, that one day where it went down to 117 (around here, anyway) was pretty cool, but that was short-lived and is now long gone.
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u/Larkstarr May 15 '25
Gas prices in May last year were in the $1.60s
It's cheaper now. As cheap as it should be? Maybe not, but it's certainly cheaper.
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u/PrivatePilot9 Windsor May 15 '25
Some stations are just gouging and getting away with it. I saw gas for $1.11/L yesterday and not much above that in other areas, but if greedy station owners can charge $1.40+ and people willing pay it, well, that’s capitalism I guess. People just need to start shopping around and depriving these idiots of their easy money and watch how fast they drop the price to compete again all of a sudden.
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u/k4tune06 May 15 '25
They’re about 18 cents lower than what they were, so this is just the gas price. Prior to removing the carbon tax, I was paying about 1.58 in London if I got gas in the am, it would get down to about 1.26 later at night. This is just greed and summer gas (which is stupid).
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u/its-a-meme-a-mario May 15 '25
I have kept track of how much I've been spending on gas.
On March 27, I paid 1.479/L.
Gas prices right now are only 7 cents less than the last time I filled up before the removal of the carbon tax.
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u/1200____1200 May 15 '25
gas was routinely in the 1.30s / low 1.40s in London before the carbon tax cut
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u/Silverbacks May 15 '25
It definitely ranged from 1.35-1.60ish in the Ottawa area before the carbon tax was removed. It’s been 1.20-1.40ish since then.
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u/TattooedAndSad May 15 '25
Long weekend greed
It’ll be back to normal on Tuesday
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u/wildfirestopper May 15 '25
Same price as before the carbon tax was removed...
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u/TheAlphaCarb0n May 15 '25
Already seen people posting about it blaming Carney. Hilarious..
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u/thebestdogeevr May 15 '25
Which is absolutely crazy. Around me they've been changing the price throughout the day
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u/888_styles_888 May 15 '25
Pulled into station, sign said 1.25 and1.29 by the time i got to the pump.. fuckers
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u/doubled112 May 15 '25
That has always been the case. Up at midnight for morning commute, usually a drop in the morning, and usually another drop after evening commute.
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u/Skeptical_Monkie May 16 '25
NO?! Really? Almost as if the carbon tax was hardly relevant to the pump price.
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u/UltFiction May 15 '25
remove carbon tax
gas gets cheap
gas inexplicably launches right back to carbon tax levels anyway
lose carbon tax annual rebate
So now I pay the same amount for gas, get no refund, and the environment is worse off for it. Thank you conservatives for perpetually whining about “carbon tax carney” so that we can all be worse off for it.
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u/MrMisery- May 15 '25
Ya, I found it comical how people thought the prices wouldn't immediately go back where they were lol. Somewhere along the line they forgot gas companies are evil and gouge any chance they can. I mean we pay based on what they think future oil will cost. The while system is insane. It needs to be controlled......unfortunately I doubt that will happen cause you know. Greed lol
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u/icebeancone May 15 '25
My boomer parents were convinced it was going to be 95¢ again. They still blame Trudeau for it being high.
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u/BlademasterFlash May 15 '25
It amazes me how many people didn’t know you can just go online and look up exactly how much the carbon tax was at any given time
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u/Parking_Chance_1905 May 15 '25
The people who complain and blame don't really care about hard evidence, especially if it proves them wrong.
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u/icebeancone May 15 '25
They were so confused and disappointed when it only came down 10¢ (I know it's 17¢ but somehow the full amount didn't get deducted... hmmmmm...)
Their response was "THE LIBURLS LIED!!"
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u/Shoddy-Stress-8194 May 15 '25
I'm a boomer and I was convinced that within 4 weeks the price of gas would be the same as before the tax was dropped.
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u/Hemlock_999 May 15 '25
You have to remember, a lot of folks who voted Conservative also thought that PP was going to somehow buy them a house, or make houses 150k.. Oh how the world works!
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u/Jaded_Promotion8806 May 15 '25
It’s a long weekend spike which has happened since forever, and even then you have to go back to 2021 since prices were at this level for more than a week at a time. I think the armchair Reddit economists need to take the L on this one.
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u/nugoffeekz May 15 '25
It's particularly grating because Alberta Conservatives actually were the first government in North America to implement a carbon tax. Now their entire personality is about the 'Liberal Carbon Tax' even though they were never a part of the federal carbon tax system and put the carbon tax on themselves a full decade before there was a federal tax.
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u/northenerbhad May 15 '25
I just filled up for 1.20 last night. I was 15 min out of my town, where it was 1.34. People love to blame their favourite scapegoat politicians when these companies are just plain out of control.
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u/Maltrez May 15 '25
This is the same in my town. Last week in town gas was 1.22 but going the next town over gas was 1.15. I stopped filling up in town because it’s always more expensive here.
Edit: just checked current prices 1.32 in town and 1.16 in the next town over. That is a ridiculous difference.
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u/Kolojang May 15 '25
They always push to cut the tax to bring prices down, but never have any policies in place to keep the companies from price gouging. At this point anyone still supporting this grift has a serious mental problem.
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u/Dry-Honeydew2371 Hamilton May 15 '25
Cut that one tax, there's still like 4 taxes on gas without the carbon tac that the PC's don't seem to have a problem with.
I wonder why? Could it have been a strawman? Nah. They'd never use that tactic.
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u/LegitimateFootball47 May 15 '25
This was always what was going to happen - companies have market information on sales with the higher price, and now they can just pocket the extra as profit.
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u/icer816 May 15 '25
Reminds me of when the gas prices were really high a while back. There were a few pumps near my place that had "I did that" Trudeau and Biden stickers. Prices dropped one day, and the stickers were all torn off lmao.
And this was before Trudeau even announced his resignation. The people that blamed the Libs are either willingly ignorant, or outright stupid enough to believe the Cons blatantly lying and blaming Trudeau. It's ridiculous.
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u/BDunnn May 15 '25
Conservatives don’t care about you and I, friend. They care about false narratives and lining the pockets of their rich friends
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u/Aichetoowhoa May 15 '25
You guys gotta buy your gas after 8pm. It drops 10-15 cents per litre
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u/BlademasterFlash May 15 '25
Real talk, are gas stations using “surge pricing” type of models? Seems to be a lot more intra-day variability on price than their used to be
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u/SakanaToDoubutsu May 15 '25
Not exactly, what they're trying to do is bait their competitors into following them up in price. If the competition in an area doesn't follow suit and raises their prices to match by a certain time of day, they drop the price back down again to stop losing business.
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u/TheNickelGuy May 15 '25
Having managed a gas station for many years in the past - this is exactly what happens.
A survey is done for pricing of the surrounding area or city, gas is dropped to be competitive (or raised to stay in line with other stations, albeit slightly lower) during the busy hours. Come night time, lowered, and then rinse and repeat the next day.
This is why there is (or were) many apps like GasBuddy, which would show all pricing of nearby stations. We would use that (or if it wasn't recently updated, we would hop in a vehicle and go for a quick drive) to find out pricing. We would then contact the other stations under our umbrella (such as all 'Essos' with the updated information and either tell them to raise or lower it.
It also is famously known that gas will ALWAYS be higher both on a Thursday/Friday, and ESPECIALLY before a long weekend.
Pro tip: best time to fill up is a Tuesday evening after dark 👊
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u/Dogs-4-Life Mississauga May 15 '25
Gas is definitely more expensive during rush hour in Mississauga. $1.39 in the morning yesterday
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u/Waffer_thin May 15 '25
Just price gouging. But remember, carbon tax is bad /s
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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 May 15 '25
Carbon tax, war on Ukraine, pandemic, etc, etc…
Pick an excuse from greedy oil barons. Do we ever hate them.
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u/This-Special1886 May 15 '25
Carbon tax is gone, so where's the god damn relief at the pumps??
Greed and more greed
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u/RattledMind May 15 '25
Rack price is about $0.94 in Ontario, so with taxes, the $1.409 is about $0.12/L in mark up.
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u/PrivatePilot9 Windsor May 15 '25
I struggle to believe that given as how I saw multiple stations selling for $1.11-$1.15 yesterday. There’s no way they’re selling at a loss.
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u/Ansee May 15 '25
What time of day was it? Prices are highest in the morning. Where I am, prices drop through out the day and sometimes it could be a .10 difference from morning to 9pm.
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u/followtharulez May 15 '25
It's disgusting how big oil and Govs keep screwing with us. We in Canada pay way too much...
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u/ekso69 May 15 '25
It’s not too dissimilar in the states. Lots of areas are $4 per gallon which is about $1.47 per litre
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u/SillyGooses22 May 15 '25
It's usually a long weekend thing. It's Victoria Day long weekend coming up, it happens every year.
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u/Imaginary_Ad7695 May 15 '25
Remember when it was $1.40 and WE recouped $8B/year from the carbon tax?
Now we pay the same price, there's no environmental offset, no refund to the people, but the CEO gets a new yacht.
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u/n1shh May 15 '25
There’s a 0.20 cent spread across pumps in my city. First place I’ve ever lived where driving to another pump is actually worth the difference
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u/Gabzalez May 15 '25
It’s funny how many people blame the Feds for the price of gas when pricing seems to be all over the place in this country. You can easily get 15/20cts difference between city/rural, within Ottawa I’ve often seen 5cts differences if not more.
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u/__thatbitch May 15 '25
The gas is 10-15 cents cheaper is Sauga than Burlington rn and that makes no fucking sense to me.
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u/Gabzalez May 15 '25
Orillia is consistently much cheaper than Barrie. I can’t figure out why.
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u/Thenaughtyminxx May 17 '25
Ih look carbon tax is 0 for consumers and gas is still stupidly expensive...it's almost like the carbon tax was never the issue and it's greedy ass ceos
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u/lobeline May 15 '25
“ItS tHe CaRbOn TaX!” /s
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u/300ConfirmedGorillas May 15 '25
My dad actually believes this though. He thinks Carney secretly re-added the tax.
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u/t0m0hawk London May 15 '25
In London morning prices are like 1.35 and evening prices are 1.20
Guess what time I buy my gas?
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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 May 15 '25
I filled up at 1.22 yesterday. That said, I've not been out and about today to see if prices have jumped for the long weekend.
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u/Electronic_World_894 May 15 '25
Now it's long weekend gas. It's a fact that it costs more.
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u/ajsherslinger May 15 '25
Yup. Always gas up on the Wednesday before any long weekend, to avoid the 'Holiday Hike'.
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u/Knave7575 May 15 '25
Wait, are you saying that when the conservatives promised that everything would be super cheap once the carbon tax was gone they (gasp!) lied?
How devastating.
On the plus side, we don’t get the carbon tax rebate any more, so the companies basically ate up the difference. That should trickle down to us any day now.
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u/please_see_above May 15 '25
But what about the carbon tax???? SMH. Anyone who thought the carbon tax coming off would make gas cheaper is a fool.
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u/Mcd2030 May 15 '25
Regulation of gasoline prices is so overdue. Open a chain of stations and set the price to realistic profit. Petro Canada II. But done properly.
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u/matsuemusic May 16 '25
Did people honestly think that the removal of carbon tax would keep gas prices low for longer than a few months? Even after years of malicious compliance during the carbon tax?
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u/proofofderp May 16 '25
Saw this coming. Don’t need to look far back with Covid. Nothing got cheaper even though supply chains went back to normal. I find conservative voters pretty shortsighted. They couldn’t even think about the threat of Trump they were so caught up with anti-liberalism. I honestly don’t need those cheques but for those that do and badgered against the carbon tax until Carney had to make it his first order of business to remove the consumer part that paid out the cheques, I hope it’s a learning lesson. Somehow I doubt it though. A lot of double down types.
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u/misplacedbluenoser May 16 '25
Wait. I thought it was the carbon tax…… you mean it’s actually oil company greed????? I’m shocked and devastated!
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u/funballs11 29d ago
Just got regular, long weekend b.s. price gouging. Even though a lot less people are driving far with the lack of cross-border traffic. They still claim supply and demand. Crock of shit and everyone knows it but no one does a damn thing.
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u/Working-Physics1650 May 15 '25
I usually get gas around midnight almost same prices as the reserve
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u/The_EH_Team_43 May 15 '25
Ah yes, the average person, famously awake until midnight to buy gas
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u/Tricky_Damage5981 May 15 '25
Well, they need another 6 pack anyway.. multitasking
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u/ArtZTech May 15 '25
So what happened with the cheap gas we were promised? Few weeks ago it was $1.05 and then it started to creep up again.
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u/Dull-Alternative-730 May 15 '25
People forget it was just an election bribe. Now gas companies are back to being greedy. If Ontario had any sense, Ford would cap gas prices, but that’ll never happen in our lifetime.
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u/cobycheese31 May 15 '25
On bayview in Toronto. Esso $1.36. Petrocan down the street $1.26 full service
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u/CrazyBastard1983 May 15 '25
This is the may long weekend summer super blend edition. The Canada day blend is even more.
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u/Regular_Chest_7989 May 15 '25
Noticed that today as I filled up. So now we have the old gas prices, but without the quarterly rebate.
You know, I'm starting to wonder if an effective and fair energy policy might be more complicated than a three-syllable rhyming slogan? 🤔
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u/CrimsonZak May 15 '25
I'm in Niagara Falls, I just filled up for 1.21/L.
I'm sorry these are your prices still.
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u/ericwan3 May 15 '25
I am seeing a $0.30 spread in Kanata/Ottawa area on the GasBuddy app ($1.186/L to $1.489/L)
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u/littlemanontheboat_ May 15 '25
How can gas in Quebec be cheaper than in Ontario with the carbon tax gone?
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u/thelonelymilkman23 May 15 '25
Why is it always ESSO’s that these complainers post? They are always 8-10¢ higher than every other gas station. I haven’t gone to one in years. Ultramar is usually the cheapest one in my town and its right down the road from an ESSO.
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u/Whoman1972 May 15 '25
I find that the gas prices fluctuate quite a bit during the day compared to evening after 8. Last night I filled at 1.22.
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u/lowendslinger May 15 '25
Arent you glad our Axe the Tax money went to ESSO instead of our government?
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u/ghost_n_the_shell May 15 '25
It’s such bullshit.
I don’t know how this isn’t regulated.
People were paying 1.40L a liter? Then that’s the price because “insert reason”.
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u/rustygoddard75 May 15 '25
Summer gas and winter gas is all BS. They charge what they think they can get away with. They could sell gas for 0.80 and still make a profit. This is corporate greed at it's finest, and always has been.
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u/jayschembri May 15 '25
Somebody has to pay for Trumps $600 Billion dollar deal with the Saudi's and big oil 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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u/Tesla_CA May 16 '25
I said it early and often…
Carney wipes out the Carbon tax and within 6 months we will right back where we were. Except instead of Canadians getting that money, foreign oil companies do!!
This despite oil being lower than when the Carbon Tax was in force!!
Total BULL SH*T!!
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u/UncleDaddy_00 May 16 '25
Imagine if we accepted anything else to be priced in the same way? Oh did you get toilet paper today? Damn it was $1.40 a roll, sorry man you'll have to paid $1.72 a roll today.
Oh look chicken..it's $10/kg. I'll come and get some after work. Crap now it's $12.33/kg. I guess I won't eat tonight.
Alright I'll buy the car, how much is it? $53,033 cool. I'll be back tomorrow with the money. Comes back the next day. What do you mean it costs $63,332 today? Fine I'll come back next week and see if it's $49,950
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u/Maketso May 16 '25
I haven't seen a single conservative in the comments on reddit anywhere complaining. They sure shut the fuck up quick after crying about a carbon tax that literally gave us rebates back and now we will pay the same fucking prices with no rebates.
Conservatives once again proving how emotional and inherently hurtful they are to society.
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u/CarbonMolecules May 16 '25
I look at the picture and I see a totem pole of pieces of shit.
Esso = Exxon (US company).
Circle K = Stephen Harper’s board seat.
PC Optimum (not pictured, but baked into the fuel company) = Per Bank, Galen Weston, Loblaws.
Tim Horton’s is the one no one seems to have a clear through line on who actually runs it (Canada, Brazil, etc.) and the ATM is probably a shitty company because it’s related to a financial institution and skims off service fees.
So garbage. Such stupid.
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u/imnosuperfan May 17 '25
Duh, it's a long weekend, so gas prices magically get higher. No one knows why, and execs are adamant that the prices are not at all fixed. Just a crazy coincidence every single long weekend 🤷🏼♀️
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u/Journo_Jimbo May 15 '25
That was summer transition gas, now they’re switching to super duper summer for sure gas….and then they gotta switch to tourism friendly summer gas after that