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Old 09-07-08, 01:33
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These prices appear quite cheap now
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Old 09-07-08, 02:24
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These prices appear quite cheap now
Yep, around $1.36/L here for regular gas right now... 10 days ago, up in Quebec with a Ford 450 cube van, diesel was anywhere up to $1.57/L, $260 CAD to fill the tank from an eighth (and we did that thrice)... hate to think what is is now!

You know what it is? It's not a bloody shortage, it's the goddam speculators, blast their hides! We have lots of oil, it's just that the greedy bastards have made us pay through the hoops for it. Already, thousands of jobs in Ontario alone have been lost due to speculator-driven bankruptcies... and worse yet to come! You know my answer - line 'em up with the spammers!!!!!!!



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Old 09-07-08, 16:51
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£1.30 per litre in this area of the UK for petrol. Paid £1.33 per litre of diesel the other day.
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Old 09-07-08, 17:33
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Old 10-07-08, 23:01
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Gasoline here is $1.41 per litre, it costs a small fortune now to fill up a car. I filled a 5 gallon can of diesel last weekend for the skidder, it cost $38.00 for 5 gallons. The price for diesel was $1.48 a litre. I remember when I started driving gas was 49 cents a gallon. You could drive for a week on $5.00. Now it is $5.00 to take the nozzel off the pump and put it in your car. They are saying for people to use public transport but when you live in the country as I do you have no other way to get around other then your own vehicle.
In the spring the price was just over $1.00 a litre and they said by summer it would be $1.50 a litre , surprise they were right. It went to that price because they wanted it there.(crooks) There should be a law against it but the government won't do anything about it because the higher the price the more money they get from it.

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Old 11-07-08, 02:03
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well, it's $1.38/l here in new brunswick....f$#@ing highway robbery!! with a 30 year reserve of oil, why do we buy foreign oil? why not use our reserve, refine it and sell it to canadians only, no export. we could control the price much better, and they could peddle their oil elsewhere!! or, we could sell them one bushel of wheat for the same price they sell us a barrell of oil...wonder how that would go over?? free trade, free oppertunity...goose and gander.
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Old 12-07-08, 04:58
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, it's the goddam speculators, You know my answer - line 'em up with the spammers!!!!!!!



Can we put 'em back to back? Brass is getting too gawdamned pricey to waste on those buggers...

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Old 19-08-08, 15:38
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The gas company's are nothing but crooks. I was under the impression that every day the price of oil is dropping, well they had dropped the price of gas here and then all of a sudden yesterday up it went 5 cents a litre. We were at $1.31 per litre and now it's back to $1.36.Yet you check on gasbuddy.com and in southern Ontario it is $1.14 per litre. According to gasbuddy.com Thunder Bay has one of the highest gas prices in Ontario.
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Old 20-08-08, 10:55
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Petrol went up to £1.25 / litre or so, and Diesel £1.34...perhaps higher. It's now come down, and our local supermarket sells 95 RON at £110.9 / litre and Diesel at £121.9/l plus they now sell Biodiesel. Where you can get it, 98 RON Super Unleaded sells between 95 and Diesel prices. Gas seems to be around £0.60/litre..that is Autogas or LPG, though local buses have run on CNG or Compressed Natural Gas.

I believe in France that they have 92 RON? I am not sure either of our cars can run on that.

There is one station about 10 miles away that sells Leaded fuel for classic cars...that's £1.50/l!!!
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Old 21-08-08, 03:41
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David:
Gasoline, unleaded, here in Arizona was .96 USD per liter today or about .51 British pounds per liter.

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Old 21-08-08, 09:16
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Currently around $1.58 (74p) per litre for unleaded, diesel is about $1.67 (78p). Please send us some!
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Old 21-08-08, 11:29
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There is one station about 10 miles away that sells Leaded fuel for classic cars...that's £1.50/l!!!
Jeez, you still have that? Over here the eco-nazis would be rioting in the streets...

Regular [unleaded] in this area is hovering just over $1.20 CAD right now, but because this is the summer, the price tends to go up on the weekends. Pure coincidence you understand, no conspiracies at all...
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Old 21-08-08, 12:00
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ULP is $1.42 and diesel is $1.70

The Military vehicle club has a 7 day run starting on Sunday which will go for about 1700 kms , some vehicles will do the 28L per 100kms .
Fuel in the country could be up to $2.00 L.
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