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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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!]

Originally Posted by 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!

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