Fuel price gouging on the Alaska Highway
With fuel prices plummeting in many places, this is an FYI that it isn't falling everywhere. I just drove from Whitehorse to Vancouver and got gouged in a few places, some expected, one very surprisin...
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Trackrig wrote:
In the towns that have more than one street, go back to the second or third street to get away from the "tourist" prices. It's usually 10 cent a gallon cheaper.
Two summers ago at the northern highway locations, the fuel was being trucked in from Alaska by an Alaskan carrier. I talked with one of the drivers and he said it was being barged in (to Haines I believe) and then they trucked it from there.
Bill
The fuel isn't cheaper away from the main drag anywhere in the Yukon (except for the one station in downtown Dawson City) or most of BC.
A bit of fuel comes in from the Skagway dock, some over the Top of the World from the Fairbanks refinery, and the rest comes up the Alaska Highway.
Murray
