Is it cheaper?
When traveling from Seattle to Boston, to use Highway #2 to Sault-Ste-Marie to Montreal then down 35 and 89 to Boston? Rather than travel the major highways in the US and pay the tolls? yes we know ...
Forum Discussion
Crowe wrote:
What you need to do is get the cost of the tolls and compare it to the extra fuel cost. We were just in Alberta and it was about $1.09/liter. $1.09 x 3.785 (# of liters in a gallon) = $4.13 CAD/gal. At an exchange rate of about .76 the equivalent in USD per gallon is $3.14. Don't know what gas is across the rest of the country but here it's about $2.09 for regular. That's a big difference that will add up quickly.
Other factors to consider are ease of route and time. You'd also have to do two border crossings. There's going to be pros and cons of both-you just have to decide what is best.
Highest price for diesel this summer was in the west I think it was $2.45.
Bill
