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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Snowman9000 wrote:
This is an example of what I like to call the living in the boonies tax. Some things are cheaper in the boonies: land, houses, wages, services. Some things are more expensive: anything that takes serious capital and transportation.
We are still paying near $3 for gasoline and close to $4 for diesel in far west Texas - 60 miles or more from I-10. The boonies tax is very real.
We bought 900 gallons of lowest grade gasoline for the state park where I'm hosting yesterday - at $2.714 per gallon - wholesale price.
lanerd wrote:
I know. You'd think that with all the oil being pumped out of Alberta, that oil by-products would be a lot cheaper.
Oil is being pumped out because Canada has relatively few refineries. Most of the fuel you buy in Canada is imported from the US or other countries. There are more oil refineries in the Houston-Baytown-Beaumont-Corpus Christi area of Texas than all of Canada.
