REVscene Automotive Forum - View Single Post - B.C. government hitting Metro Vancouver drivers with 1.5 cents per litre gas tax hike

whitev70r · 07-02-2018, 06:53 PM

This is the big picture ... (and that price listed under BC is either not recent or gas outside Metro brought the avg price down). After paying the oil companies their millions of profits, which people from BC to PEI has to do, this is the difference.

I'm fine with paying say $1.35 and I get that some has to go to repair roads, infrastructure etc. BUT every other major city has roads, transit, infrastructure, and 'amenities'. If Ontario can do it for $1.310 what factor makes gas in BC $1.458? Why is it so much more than the average big Canadian city?

If 1.5 cents translates to $50/yr extra per car ... 15 cent difference (from BC to Ont) translates to $500/yr extra per car or $1000/yr if you have 2 cars ... feel like you're bending over yet?

https://www.gasbuddy.com/CAN

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whitev70r Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: 604 Posts: 10,454 Thanked 6,282 Times in 3,026 Posts Failed 320 Times in 161 Posts	This is the big picture ... (and that price listed under BC is either not recent or gas outside Metro brought the avg price down). After paying the oil companies their millions of profits, which people from BC to PEI has to do, this is the difference. I'm fine with paying say $1.35 and I get that some has to go to repair roads, infrastructure etc. BUT every other major city has roads, transit, infrastructure, and 'amenities'. If Ontario can do it for $1.310 what factor makes gas in BC $1.458? Why is it so much more than the average big Canadian city? If 1.5 cents translates to $50/yr extra per car ... 15 cent difference (from BC to Ont) translates to $500/yr extra per car or $1000/yr if you have 2 cars ... feel like you're bending over yet? https://www.gasbuddy.com/CAN Last edited by whitev70r; 07-02-2018 at 07:22 PM.