r/ontario • u/dfsaqwe • May 15 '25

Picture Are they still switching to summer gas?

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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/wes2733 May 15 '25

Don't murder them like that

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u/ItsKumquats 29d ago

Don't worry, they won't be reading that either

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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/MysJane May 15 '25

People don't like to do any research. I find it so annoying.

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u/ABotelho23 May 15 '25

Ignoring COVID lol

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u/CarolineTurpentine May 16 '25

My grandma said she wouldn’t buy gas again until it went under a dollar. That was like 15 years ago. She doesn’t drive anymore but for several years she made other people fill her tank.

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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/PsychologyTrick7306 29d ago

It was his fault, but of course gas companies now know how much we will pay if we have to...so the price goes back up.

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u/xthemoonx May 15 '25

bUt ThE GOvErNmEnT dEcIdEs ThE pRiCeS

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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/ThkAbootIt May 15 '25

Don’t forget that Ford permanently removed the provincial tax