BUY GAS NOW!!!! [Archive] - REVscene Automotive Forum

thumper

06-30-2009, 07:13 AM

hopefully this isn't a prank, but i just heard this over the radio...

anonymous gas attendant called in and said because of the impending canada day holiday with everyone taking time off for the rest of the week... the plan is to jack prices up to $1.40/L

so fill up today asap :cry:

kumbo1

06-30-2009, 07:27 AM

lol...i don't think so....

ilvtofu

06-30-2009, 07:45 AM

lol it's just there to get u to BUY GAS NOW!

Bender Unit

06-30-2009, 07:49 AM

On the other hand, TV said tomorrow (July 1) is the phase 2 of the Carbon TAX.
Gas Price in BC will go up 50 per cent

http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/terracestandard/news/49505527.html

kumbo1

06-30-2009, 08:57 AM

point roberts ftw!

Gh0stRider

06-30-2009, 09:04 AM

i'll be filling up tonight...or i can goto point robers/blaine

penner2k

06-30-2009, 09:27 AM

On the other hand, TV said tomorrow (July 1) is the phase 2 of the Carbon TAX.
Gas Price in BC will go up 50 per cent

http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/terracestandard/news/49505527.html

You didnt word that very well. The way you worded it I thought you were trying to say the actual price of gas will go up by 50%. Its just the carbon tax.
So an extra 1.2 cents a litre

ilvtofu

06-30-2009, 09:57 AM

^LMFAO 1.2 cents compared to 50 cents per litre, talk about error there!

hotjoint

06-30-2009, 10:01 AM

damn carbon tax

racerman88

06-30-2009, 10:25 AM

total BS tax!!! Point ROberts = 0.94 per liter

InvisibleSoul

06-30-2009, 10:30 AM

thumper

06-30-2009, 10:40 AM

:bullshit:

i really hope so... i don't want a repeat of last year :(

SumAznGuy

06-30-2009, 10:56 AM

total BS tax!!! Point ROberts = 0.94 per liter

I was there on Saturday. The Cheveron had 92 for $0.919 / L. 87 was $0.879 / L.

I'm going back on wednesday to pickup some tires, hopefully gas is still this cheap. But then again, the total difference is only around $4.00 cdn.

!Yaminashi

06-30-2009, 11:06 AM

i really hope so... i don't want a repeat of last year :(

I'm pretty sure the same thing will happen where we hit close to $1.50/litre
There was an article posted here on RS too, summer = when everyone wants to drive, demand > supply, so higher prices

shenmecar

06-30-2009, 12:00 PM

OKAY!!!!!!! !!

InvisibleSoul

06-30-2009, 12:12 PM

I'm pretty sure the same thing will happen where we hit close to $1.50/litre
There was an article posted here on RS too, summer = when everyone wants to drive, demand > supply, so higher prices
There is WAY more to it than that... I don't know all the details, but I can tell you that there is no reason to believe it will get anywhere close to $1.50/L again this summer.

Look at the chart of price of crude oil:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Brent_Spot_monthly.svg

What happened in 2007 was a huge anomoly, and I can tell you that it wasn't just because of higher demand because of summer driving!

At this moment, it's still half the price of where it was last year... and unless you see it skyrocketing again in the next couple weeks, I can't see how you can expect there to be $1.50/L prices again this summer.

n1smo

06-30-2009, 12:13 PM

point roberts ftw!

haha i got to pr too for gas:thumbsup:

maxx

06-30-2009, 12:16 PM

point roberts ftw!

its too bad you burn a quarter of your tank going there and back and beat on your car as well

!Yaminashi

06-30-2009, 12:18 PM

its too bad you burn a quarter of your tank going there and back and beat on your car as well

Unless they already live fairly close?

Timpo

06-30-2009, 12:24 PM

oh i thought it was 50% too

Manic!

06-30-2009, 12:48 PM

simsimi1004

06-30-2009, 12:52 PM

^
any discounts for revscene members? :)

kumbo1

06-30-2009, 01:15 PM

its too bad you burn a quarter of your tank going there and back and beat on your car as well

I work right by there :D

thumper

06-30-2009, 01:21 PM

^
any discounts for revscene members? :)

sure if u care to drive to nanaimo :awesom:

MWR34

06-30-2009, 01:30 PM

^LMFAO 1.2 cents compared to 50 cents per litre, talk about error there!

sounds like he works for the government. making errors that large. Canadian Mint anyone?

Cman333

06-30-2009, 02:19 PM

I was watching CNN other day and they mentioned something about some terrorist attacked some oil refineries and torched them.

I forgot the details. Maybe it has something to do with that.

Cman333

06-30-2009, 02:30 PM

Found the article

http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/29/markets/oil.reut/index.htm

q0192837465

06-30-2009, 02:45 PM

God damn terrorists. Just nuke their asses

skyxx

06-30-2009, 05:15 PM

KaOsTiK

06-30-2009, 06:13 PM

If you buy gas now. What are you gonna do the next follow week. Not buy it? lol.. You still gotta buy it regardless the price. Unless you're talking about bringing in 10 Jerry cans and filling them up.

lol...exactly. how much would you really save by filling up now? some ppl do bring out barrels with them...a rare few, but i've heard of it happening

keeping somewhat on topic, a buddy owns a gas station and can hookup a couple discounted gas cards..so if you're a friend from here (in person)..feel free to pm me

tiger_handheld

06-30-2009, 06:35 PM

lol...exactly. how much would you really save by filling up now? some ppl do bring out barrels with them...a rare few, but i've heard of it happening

keeping somewhat on topic, a buddy owns a gas station and can hookup a couple discounted gas cards..so if you're a friend from here (in person)..feel free to pm me

hey man, remember , we met at the club. I thought his parents owned the gas station - not him. but yah, let me know if u can hook up that gas card, ill come n pick it up..

monkeywrench

06-30-2009, 06:37 PM

bricks will be shat if it turns out to be a deja vu of last year *crosses fingers*

KaOsTiK

06-30-2009, 06:51 PM

hey man, remember , we met at the club. I thought his parents owned the gas station - not him. but yah, let me know if u can hook up that gas card, ill come n pick it up..

same thing..lol
what's your real name? i don't have the greatest memory when it comes to names and forum user names unless I can place a face with it. i've pm-ed ya

JesseBlue

06-30-2009, 07:41 PM

Meowjin

06-30-2009, 08:59 PM

canadian regulators won't let that happen.

bcrdukes

06-30-2009, 11:21 PM

Ummm...I just saw it at 107.9 5 minutes ago and I filled up on that earlier today 8 hours ago.

Manic!

06-30-2009, 11:39 PM

gas companies always makes up an excuse to jack up the price...sure...do you really believe its supply and demand...talk to opec about that...its about controlling the price and ensuring the ceos and directors get the extra million in bonus money

If someone offered you $15000 for your car and someone offered you $20000 for you car who would you sell too? If people are willing to buy gas at $1.50 why sell it for less?

124Y

07-01-2009, 01:28 AM

^Isn't there a law against marking up prices to a certain amount for protection of the consumers?

Benz_05TSX

07-01-2009, 03:40 AM

It's still $113.9 right now in the early mornings of Canada Day...

Nvasion

07-01-2009, 04:00 AM

its 5am and its 113

jigga250

07-01-2009, 07:51 AM

On the other hand, TV said tomorrow (July 1) is the phase 2 of the Carbon TAX.
Gas Price in BC will go up 50 per cent

http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/terracestandard/news/49505527.html

durrr

jlenko

07-01-2009, 08:22 AM

^Isn't there a law against marking up prices to a certain amount for protection of the consumers?

If there is.. it's not enforced.

Up until recently, the price of oil per barrel was pretty cheap... gas SHOULD have been around 70 cents a litre, even with all our taxes on it. But, it was sitting around a dollar all this time...

Manic!

07-01-2009, 01:19 PM

^Isn't there a law against marking up prices to a certain amount for protection of the consumers?

I saw a Pokemon card on Ebay for $300. I don't think it's worth $300 but some do. In Canada you can charge what ever you want for a product.

Carl Johnson

07-01-2009, 03:54 PM

I saw a Pokemon card on Ebay for $300. I don't think it's worth $300 but some do. In Canada you can charge what ever you want for a product.

On Ebay yes you can charge $10,000 for a pair of socks and get away with it. However, rational consumer in a free market will always go for the best (lowest) ask price. Therefore just because a seller/business can charge $xxx for something doesn't mean they should if they want to be in business for the long run. I am just speaking purely from the marketing perspective. But there are also laws in Canada protecting consumers from predatory pricing so no you cannot as a business charge anything you want and get away with it.

Manic!

07-01-2009, 10:27 PM

On Ebay yes you can charge $10,000 for a pair of socks and get away with it. However, rational consumer in a free market will always go for the best (lowest) ask price. Therefore just because a seller/business can charge $xxx for something doesn't mean they should if they want to be in business for the long run. I am just speaking purely from the marketing perspective. But there are also laws in Canada protecting consumers from predatory pricing so no you cannot as a business charge anything you want and get away with it.
That was my point. you can charge what ever you want but if no one buys it you would go broke.

InvisibleSoul

07-01-2009, 10:40 PM

^Isn't there a law against marking up prices to a certain amount for protection of the consumers?
No. Retailers can sell their goods for whatever price they want. Just that if they set it higher than others, nobody would buy it from them.

However, there IS a law that prevents retailers from colluding with each other to artificially mark the prices up together.

I mean, if an individual gas station decided to mark it up to $1.40/L, then obviously everyone would go to another gas station to fill up.

But if that gas station owner called up all the other gas station owners in the area and made a deal so that they all jacked it up to $1.40/L, then that's illegal.

hk20000

07-01-2009, 10:58 PM

Just put in gas at 10pm ish for 104.9

don't know what the OP was trying to get at...Do you own a gas station or something man?

Benz_05TSX

07-02-2009, 02:42 AM

^ Same here!! 104.9 baby!!!....but Supreme was still 119 or 117. And I filled up my mom's car, my car is still empty :(

Also, not every chevron was doing 104.9, only the one near night market. The one on No.3 and No.2 was still 113.9

thumper

07-02-2009, 06:00 AM

Just put in gas at 10pm ish for 104.9

don't know what the OP was trying to get at...Do you own a gas station or something man?

i wish!

passed by a station on main st this morning and it was $1.14 :(

hk20000

07-02-2009, 09:01 AM

My price came from an Esso station....

SumAznGuy

07-02-2009, 10:20 AM

Filled up at Cheveron in Pt. Roberts yesterday. $91.9 usd/L for 92 octane.

Drift_Monkey

07-02-2009, 11:15 AM

Filled up at Cheveron in Pt. Roberts yesterday. $91.9 usd/L for 92 octane.

nice... so thats just over a dollar a litre.

too_slow

07-02-2009, 11:24 AM

Filled up at Cheveron in Pt. Roberts yesterday. $91.9 usd/L for 92 octane.

I think you meant $0.919/L because at $91.9/L, my car with a 60L tank would cost $5514..:(

ChyahGT

07-02-2009, 04:26 PM

either way... 1.2cent more or less.. we're still paying a lot more than what we should be paying.
FUCKKKKKK!!!!!!

hk20000

07-02-2009, 05:34 PM

0.934CDN/L at Texaco at PR.

thumper

07-02-2009, 07:47 PM

looks like i've cried wolf. coming home just now i see prices at $1.08/L....

Nightwalker

07-03-2009, 12:08 AM

sure if u care to drive to nanaimo :awesom:

Ya? I'm near Nanaimo ;)

thumper

07-03-2009, 06:07 AM

Ya? I'm near Nanaimo ;)

doh! lucky bastard :D

racerman88

07-03-2009, 08:51 AM

its too bad you burn a quarter of your tank going there and back and beat on your car as well

you don't burn too much b/c it is highway driving. I save around $15 per tank.

ecsw

07-03-2009, 01:16 PM

if you don't mind husky, there's a coupon equals to 8 cents off each liter if you fill 25L each time....

Fafine

07-03-2009, 03:44 PM

^ are you sure its not 1.00 off the total? cause thats the only coupon i see on their site.

ecsw

07-03-2009, 03:54 PM

^ are you sure its not 1.00 off the total? cause thats the only coupon i see on their site.

no, $2.00 off 25 liters.

Steal directly from redflagdeal (hungryboi), used it more than 3 times without any problem. fill exactly at 25L, no master card needed.

http://img291.imageshack.us/i/50930807.jpg/

Carl Johnson

07-06-2009, 07:42 PM

Fundamental does not suggest we gonna hit anywhere near $1.40/L. Gasoline price should be below $1/L right now but greedy bastards are artificially keeping the price up

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601207&sid=avmYU.54R7Xk

Nvasion

07-06-2009, 08:35 PM

just filled up at 106 just now.

thumper

07-06-2009, 08:41 PM

yeah. i cried wolf. last time i'm ever going to listen to CKNW :cry:

illicitstylz

07-07-2009, 01:50 AM

2.76/gallon in us today (was near seattle premium outlets when we were shopping) exit 220

2.89/gallon in blaine

1 US Gallon = ~3.8 Litres?

ecsw

07-07-2009, 08:43 AM

q0192837465

07-07-2009, 01:34 PM

but isnt artificially keepingt he price up illegal?

ecsw

07-07-2009, 02:20 PM

^ Because everyone thinks gas price is commodity price. ppl often say there's no way to fight it anyway and let it go.

Alphamale

07-07-2009, 02:23 PM

^People have fought it and the conclusion is that there is no collusion, at least not any sort of collusion that has substantial evidence to win in court. Basically, we're SOL unless someone can find good evidence.

yvrnycracer

07-07-2009, 05:06 PM

but isnt artificially keepingt he price up illegal?

not at all... its whatever the market will take...

If people stopped buying gas the price would go down...

Why don't we talk about all the increased revenue the government gets from these increased prices? We all blame the oil companies... but the government is partly at fault here...

People don't complain about the overinflated prices of luxury goods which have huge margins... its whatever the market can hold and is willing to pay...

ecsw

07-07-2009, 05:13 PM

not at all... its whatever the market will take...

If people stopped buying gas the price would go down...

Why don't we talk about all the increased revenue the government gets from these increased prices? We all blame the oil companies... but the government is partly at fault here...

People don't complain about the overinflated prices of luxury goods which have huge margins... its whatever the market can hold and is willing to pay...

luxury goods are not commodity item. but you are right, government is partially responsible for this as well.

But it's too difficult to have many ppl stood up at the same time and complain. We can only watch it soar however they like for now.

skyxx

07-07-2009, 07:14 PM

but isnt artificially keepingt he price up illegal?

It's not Illegal until you get caught.:) Just like how it's not cheating until you....Oh wait nvm.....:inoutugh: