A Buck ($) a litre.

[The General]

How much longer do you guys think it will be before we're paying $1,25 ?

[hashole]

gas in the GTA has not hit a buck a litre yet. How much is it in Montreal??

[The General]

Almost 2 weeks ago, it reached 99.9 cents a litre. It's back down to about 90.0 cents now.

[driftor]

I've been buying gas for 80 cents plus or minus a cent. It's gone up to almost 90 cents. I buy off times which used to be Monday for a long time until someone must have caught on recently. So I just fill up when price is lowest because prices can change a lot even in one day--and that's the greater Toronto area.

[woohoo!]

Once the oil companies succeed in making people think that 90 cents a litre is "cheap" gas, then they'll jack up the price to $1.10

Once the oil companies succeed in making people think that a dollar a litre is "cheap" gas, then they'll jack up the price to $1.20

And so on...

And it's working. Right now, if the gas price dips below 90 cents, we're all shouting: "hooray! cheap gas!"... 2 years ago it was 70 cents a litre.

Meanwhile, oil companies are making RECORD profits... and the government is raking in the money in taxes, so don't count on them to regulate squat.

[greasemonkey]

You know the government is as useless as tits on a bull for anything and they are just going to keep blowing smoke up our ass with these promises to lower the gas prices. If you want it done you have to get the job done yourself these days. So here's how you get the prices down yourself. Boycott the big guys like Esso, Petro Canada, Sunoco. Get your gas from the little guys and buy the premium. Top it up with a bottle of octain booster. Your gas last longer which saves you money and the boycott forces the big guys to lower their prices to get business back. Then the little guys will undercut to keep the new business and so on. We started a chain letter about this last summer in the Ottawa Valley and it worked like a charm. prices when down within a month. I have a 91 olds 3.8L engine I put a full tank of Premium gas in it and topped it off with a bottle of octaine booster. I got 712KM out of 3/4 of that tank and drove for 3 days. Considering that I can get gas for 59 cents a litre in the States Canada has no excuse for these prices.

[woohoo!]

Good point, greasemonkey, but boycotting has already been shouted out before, and it doesn't seem to work well. The companies know sooner or later we'll have to put gas in our cars, and the "little guys" aren't on every street corner.

Personally, I think we should concentrate on 1 company, and that's Petro-Canada. They are smaller than Esso (which have equivalents in USA and Europe, so they got money to hold up), and most have convenience stores which we should also boycott. Once the cobwebs start accumulating at Petro-Canada, the prices will go down. We only need to get 1 company to lower their prices for the rest to follow suit.

[F1mania]

Good point, greasemonkey, but boycotting has already been shouted out before, and it doesn't seem to work well. The companies know sooner or later we'll have to put gas in our cars, and the "little guys" aren't on every street corner.

Personally, I think we should concentrate on 1 company, and that's Petro-Canada. They are smaller than Esso (which have equivalents in USA and Europe, so they got money to hold up), and most have convenience stores which we should also boycott. Once the cobwebs start accumulating at Petro-Canada, the prices will go down. We only need to get 1 company to lower their prices for the rest to follow suit.
LETS DOIT , NOW

[gdcwatt]

You can't not buy gas, so the only way to protest is to not buy anything else at a gas station - no soda, no milk, no candy, magazines, or windshield washer fluid and oil. If you thought about how much margin convenience store operators make on all this other stuff, you'd find that the gas is their best marketing vehicle for total location profit?

If you know your car uses oil, don't pay $4/litre; buy a couple of litres at C. Tire for $1 each and carry it around. When you're at the grocery store, buy an extra bag of milk when you're there. Pay at the pump, if possible, so that your not vulnerable to all those impulse-purchase bins of chocolate bars - if you're that weak (or, think of amortizing $1 for that chocolate bar over 20L of gas as an additional 5 cents per litre, and suddenly you're paying over $1 per litre of gas).

Think about how valuable you are to gas retailers, and how they show it. Buy $2,000 worth of gas over a year and you earn enough points to get a free $4.99 4L bottle of windshield fluid that costs $1.49 at C. Tire. Sign me up!

[woohoo!]

You can't not buy gas, so the only way to protest is to not buy anything else at a gas station - no soda, no milk, no candy, magazines, or windshield washer fluid and oil. If you thought about how much margin convenience store operators make on all this other stuff, you'd find that the gas is their best marketing vehicle for total location profit?

If you know your car uses oil, don't pay $4/litre; buy a couple of litres at C. Tire for $1 each and carry it around. When you're at the grocery store, buy an extra bag of milk when you're there. Pay at the pump, if possible, so that your not vulnerable to all those impulse-purchase bins of chocolate bars - if you're that weak (or, think of amortizing $1 for that chocolate bar over 20L of gas as an additional 5 cents per litre, and suddenly you're paying over $1 per litre of gas).

Think about how valuable you are to gas retailers, and how they show it. Buy $2,000 worth of gas over a year and you earn enough points to get a free $4.99 4L bottle of windshield fluid that costs $1.49 at C. Tire. Sign me up!

I've heard that Petro Points rewards you with 0,001 % of your purchases... ridiculous!!

[taurus26]

:D Spotted in an O.S. Forum less than one hour ago!

Make of it what you will!



> This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy petrol on a certain day"
> campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies
> just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to hurt
> ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience
> to us than it was a problem for them.
>
>
> BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can
> really work. Please read it and join in! Now that the oil companies
> and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a
> litre is CHEAP, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that
> BUYERS control the market place not sellers. With the price of petrol
> going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way
> we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone
> in the pocket by not purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that
> WITHOUT hurting ourselves. Here's the
> idea:
>
>
> For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two
> biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP. If they are
> not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices.
> If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow
> suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Esso
and BP petrol buyers.
> It's really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp out on me at this point...
> keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of
> people!!
>
>
> I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to
> at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least
> ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message
> reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over
> THREE MILLION consumers!
> If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends
> each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one
> level further, you guessed it.....THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
>
>
> Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (and
> not buy at ESSO/BP) How long would all that take? If each of us sends
> this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300
> MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8
> days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential,
> did you! Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense
> to you, please pass this message on. PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER
> THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE RANGE. It's easy to make this happen.
>
>
> Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda, Tesco,
> Sainsburys, Morrisons, Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.
>
>
> POWER TO THE PEOPLE
>
>

[woohoo!]

I think boycotting won't change anything, because you'll have to gas up sooner or later.

Choosing to boycott the "biggest" companies is an even worse idea, since they got plenty of funds to survive your boycott.

It would make better sense to boycott the smallest ones, those who'll have a harder time to survive deserted gas pumps. You know, like Petro-Canada...

[The General]

We are basically screwed. We are so dependent on fuel because we have no alternative. If the price of milk went up, we could decide to boycott milk and buy apple juice instead. There is no alternative to gas unfortunately. Hence my opening statement.

Not all cars or people will want to convert to bio-diesel, natural gas...

[woohoo!]

We are basically screwed. We are so dependent on fuel because we have no alternative. If the price of milk went up, we could decide to boycott milk and buy apple juice instead. There is no alternative to gas unfortunately. Hence my opening statement.

Not all cars or people will want to convert to bio-diesel, natural gas...

Mmm... Honey Nut Cheerios in apple juice... how you're talkin' :3d-smileroll:

[Peter Wong]

Do not worry about the price of gasoline, they will keep on rising. This is exactly what our big brother want to see. They have trillion of $$$ in deficit, how would you expect them to pay down their debt?

Our big brother has planned very well, by producing big cars and trucks when the price of gasoling was lower at the time, invaded the country that has lots of oil, bought more Canadian Oil companies, the list goes on....


Do you really think our big brother does not have oil and gas bury on their own land? Absolutley not! They just want to use ours first because it was dirt cheap. Remember the price of oil was around 10.00 a barrel.

Eventually, the price of gasoline will go up to $2 per litre, then 2.50 perhaps up to 5.00 per litre. What do you think our brother will do by then? They will start to producing their own oil and control the price in the market.

Only time can tell if my prediction is correct!

[amorak]

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[apl16]

pedal power......flintstone cars!