Study finds that we're getting ripped off on gas prices, as if we didn't already know

[Unoriginalusername]

http://www.canadiandriver.com/news/070511-1.htm

well its official, we're getting ripped off

[Cardinal Fang]

I don't have any problem with this if the oil companies would at least buy me dinner before screwing me over.

[Unoriginalusername]

I don't have any problem with this if the oil companies would at least buy me dinner before screwing me over.

lmao

[Wild Weasel]

It's interesting that since this report came out, showing what we already knew about being screwed, the prices have only gone further up. It's like they're telling us all to go **** ourselves. Bastards.

Of course, I've been lucky on my last two tanks of gas. I filled up this morning paying 89 octane prices for no apparent reason. They didn't appear to be out of 89, but the 91 was the same price, only 6 cents more than regular.

My last tank was even better, as they were out of regular so I got 91 for the price of 87.

[Jeff-TheBiz]

Just a reminder to anyone who hasn't heard...

May 15th is DO NOT PUMP DAY.

All of Canada is avoiding any gas purchase... If it doesn't work, big deal, If it does... we send a message to the oil industry that we are pissed, and we ain't gonna take it no more.

[Caz]

So they get more business on the day before and the day after the 15th. That will teach them!

[Xerox]

Just a reminder to anyone who hasn't heard...

May 15th is DO NOT PUMP DAY.

All of Canada is avoiding any gas purchase... If it doesn't work, big deal, If it does... we send a message to the oil industry that we are pissed, and we ain't gonna take it no more.

I heard about that but I forgot. I don't need gas anyway so I would have unknowingly participated :)

[majic]

Just a reminder to anyone who hasn't heard...

May 15th is DO NOT PUMP DAY.

All of Canada is avoiding any gas purchase... If it doesn't work, big deal, If it does... we send a message to the oil industry that we are pissed, and we ain't gonna take it no more.

oh another reason i don't do that facebook thing.. bullshit propaganda.. and a new medium for chain letters :loco

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/wtom/facebooktheedge.jpg

[Wild Weasel]

Damn. This is the first I'm hearing of this and I filled up this morning.

Something like this really needs more publicity, and it shouldn't be a day. It should be a whole week where you don't use a specific brand. It would be so easy to boycott specific brands until they dropped their price, but people are too stupid to organize and do it. :(

[Broli]

the hopes with these do not pump days, is to mess up the different companies supply lines, creating an unexpected surplus could lead to great costs somewhere down the supply line . . .

i am not sure one day is sufficient, but who knows

i am also not sure how independent from eachother the companies supply lines are, but if there is significant independence, boycotting one at at time for a week would perhaps be more effective . . .

ah well, i have a full tank so it dont matter today!

[majic]

Damn. This is the first I'm hearing of this and I filled up this morning.

Something like this really needs more publicity, and it shouldn't be a day. It should be a whole week where you don't use a specific brand. It would be so easy to boycott specific brands until they dropped their price, but people are too stupid to organize and do it. :(

now you're just talking out of your ass.. very few of us can afford NOT to drive daily.. be it for work or extracurricular or groceries.. i COULD take the go train but it's more expensive and takes about just as long as the car.. on good days even longer.. i fill up every 5-6 days, yeah i drive a lot 35K+.. if you boycott one station, the other will raise the prices.. supply vs demand.. simple.. so in the end it's just like masturbation, you're screwing yourself.. :bang

[Wild Weasel]

now you're just talking out of your ass.. very few of us can afford NOT to drive daily.. be it for work or extracurricular or groceries.. i COULD take the go train but it's more expensive and takes about just as long as the car.. on good days even longer.. i fill up every 5-6 days, yeah i drive a lot 35K+.. if you boycott one station, the other will raise the prices.. supply vs demand.. simple.. so in the end it's just like masturbation, you're screwing yourself.. :bang

If you boycott one station long enough, they'll have to lower their prices. Then everyone else will have to lower prices to compete.

If everyone stuck to a plan to only buy from Petro Canada if their price were under 90 cents, what do you figure would happen?

If they dropped the price to under 90 cents, the boycott would only last a few hours. Then if they go back up to 90+, the boycott is back on.

Other stations aren't going to jack up prices because of this. PC would simply have no choice but to keep the price down.

Unfortunately though, people are lemmings and if everyone else is charging $1.00, they'll flock to PC as soon as their price is 99 cents.

[majic]

Unfortunately though, people are lemmings and if everyone else is charging $1.00, they'll flock to PC as soon as their price is 99 cents.

this i will agree with you on..

i mean remember the other day when CTC had gas for 20c off @ 83c vs the 103c.. people lined up for 45min to an hour.. and drove out of their way..

hmm 50L tank you save $10 and if you had a van maybe $20.. i guess if you get paid < $10 or $20/hr then it's worth your time but really, all the idling you'll do and rage you experience not to mention waste a day or come to work late and go out of you way.. HARDLY worth it.. o ya.. especially it was a one time deal.. now if that was the case week by week .. i might reconsider.. but $10 on $2000/yr in gas isn't significant enough...

[MPS]

ROLF


So they get more business on the day before and the day after the 15th. That will teach them!

[Jeff-TheBiz]

ROLF

ROFLMAO....:chuckle

[Skarbro]

These "boycotts" never work.

Even if everyone in Canada didn't buy gas for a day, they would all just buy it the next day. The reduction in demand for the 15th would just be offset by the increase in demand for the 16th. This would have a wash effect on the price - so nothing would change.

The only way to make it work is to truly reduce demand - by not driving at all. And that will never happen.

[Unoriginalusername]

ROFLMAO....:chuckle

x2... whats rolf? lol :pop

[wingnut12]

Supply < demand = vaseline hump.

Hurricane Katrina taught the oil companies that consumers won't change their purchasing habits until about 1.15 - 1.20/litre so why bother lowering prices?
It's not as if there's competition to get in the way.

[Cardinal Fang]

x2... whats rolf? lol :pop

Rolling on Laminate Floor?

And for those that think or believe "not pumping" gas on the 15th will have an affect I ask you to read this:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

[bluntman]

Damn, I should have filled up yesterday, I'm running on fumes.

[mit-gee-mui]

My light just came on, and I still need to do tons of driving today!:complain :bang :flaming

On the bright side, gas is ~1.4 cents cheaper today than yesterday. :loco


A few months ago, wasn't there something like a proposal/subsidy/something similar saying that gas would not be this expensive (i.e. higher than $1/L)? What ever happened to that?

[Xerox]

A few months ago, wasn't there something like a proposal/subsidy/something similar saying that gas would not be this expensive (i.e. higher than $1/L)? What ever happened to that?

Help from the government? (And loose out on all that gas tax? Conflict of interest there) Don't expect the government to bail you out. Just try to reduce your dependency on oil (I know - easier said than done).

[WLS ZMZM]

Supply < demand = vaseline hump.???

The way prices are I'd hardly say they are using vaseline.... this is really really rough... as for excuses.. it seems someone farts in the middle east and the price jumps!! :complain and like what was said b4 the government will play the trump card.. "we'll look into having it regulated" why cut off their own hands.... the amount they are pulling in in gas tax is ludacris... besides the government points the finger at the oil companies and the oil companies point their finger at the government... gotta love the stickers on the pumps at Petro Can.... its like geez.... someone do something!! The scariest part was I was cleaning out my desk at home.. and found a gas slip from like 7 years ago... when gas was 43.5 cents/L anyone remember those times... I remember bitching about paying $20 to fill my van....
*those were the days*

[Flagrum_3]

The only way we'll ever see gas prices come down is when we are less dependant ie; other fuels or fuel cells etc; or someone starts assasinating oil executives until they get the message...the latter being my personal preference ;-)

Sorry but, the good old days were when gas cost .36 cents a gallon of reg and .40 cents for 104 octane, ...that's 8 cents a liter folks! Used to fill my car for $5.00.


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[Jeff-TheBiz]

It may not have had any effect, but I felt good being a part of something that did nothing....



Wow, that sounded so much better in my head...

[justin]

I don't have any problem with this if the oil companies would at least buy me dinner before screwing me over.

LOL.... or a drink. I'm a cheap date. :chuckle

[justin]

Rolling on Laminate Floor?

And for those that think or believe "not pumping" gas on the 15th will have an affect I ask you to read this:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

Those kinds of boycotts have usually no effect. You would have to sustain a boycott like that for months or even years on end for it to work.

[Wild Weasel]

Yep, and it won't happen until a LOT of people care enough to get on board.

[majic]

eff you oil companies.. :loco

http://xs115.xs.to/xs115/07203/DSC00553.JPG

doh.. i better fill up.. :flaming

http://xs115.xs.to/xs115/07203/DSC00555.JPG

welll at least i got a 7.96L/100km

double doh.. :complain first $50 tank methinks.. :bang

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[EvilEric]

Nothing is ever going to happen to them. The gov gets so much out of the tax on gas that to lower prices they would only hurt themselves.

[garboui]

The way prices are I'd hardly say they are using vaseline....
*those were the days*

of course not, vaseline is a petroleum product. one, it costs too much; two if they did use it they would have to charge you taxes on it.

[zedtech]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/zedtech/gasprices.jpg

:loco :bang

[Jeff-TheBiz]

Well... here is the recap of the organized demonstration.


IT WORKED...

Gas prices in Newmarket went down almost a tenth of a cent...

WOO HOO!!!

WE WON!!


Thanx to all that participated.

[Wild Weasel]

Well... here is the recap of the organized demonstration.


IT WORKED...

Gas prices in Newmarket went down almost a tenth of a cent...

WOO HOO!!!

WE WON!!


Thanx to all that participated.


I applaud your enthusiasm. :chuckle

[majic]

anyone else finds it amusing that price of gas went up by 4 cents from 1.06 to 1.10 in time for the long weekend and that today you can buy a greenback for less than you'd have to shell out of a liter of regular? 1.095 (if you ddin't have to suffer the 2-3% fee from the bank)

i'm sooo excited.. i just can't hide it.. :bana

btw if you're driving up north, i heard that the service station off the 400 was selling gas for 1.06 whereas the stations in the GTA was ripping us off a few cents more.. oh and it's all b/c oil prices went up .. uh huh..

[3GFX]

Full tank on wednesday means no long weekend worries :D YAYYYY!!!

[majic]

Full tank on wednesday means no long weekend worries :D YAYYYY!!!

ugh.. about 750km round trip (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=toronto,+on+to+killarney,+on&sll=43.449277,-79.748101&sspn=0.006808,0.013475&ie=UTF8&ll=45.342494,-80.345764&spn=1.687243,3.449707&z=9&om=1) ahead for me :P

[Wild Weasel]

Full tank on wednesday means no long weekend worries :D YAYYYY!!!

I've only got a quarter tank or so left, but I've got no plans to go anywhere so I should be safe. :)