Bent crude tops 60 a barrel

SoundGuy wrote:
Every time an American posts about fuel costs I just roll my eyes. :B Here in town this morning I noticed the price of regular @ $1.20 Cdn per litre ... with a US gallon = 3.785 litres that means a US gallon here would be ~ $4.54 Cdn or at the current exchange rate ~ $3.53 US. Quit yer whinin'! :W

Dutch_12078 wrote:
Subtract the avg 33% CDN gas taxes versus the avg 11% US gas taxes, and the prices aren't all that different.

Sure, but standing at the pump your point is moot - we here in Canada do pay significantly more for fuel than those in the US. Regardless of the reason(s) we're getting whacked at lot more than our American cousins. :M

California will add twelve cents per gallon in gasoline taxes on Wednesday. When in doubt, increase taxes!

And old-dumb-me. I thought taxes and tea brought about the elimination of the idea of requiring a picture of the Royals on our currency. Britain, Australia, New Kiwiland, you're all in the same boat. Sad. Like Canadian banks being set up for the mass slaughter of crude oil futures. We have a lecherous bunch on Wall Street.

Have any of the graduate geniuses of the University of Toronto done studies to find out what Canadian tax dollars do for you? If things cost less here in the US and are taxed less, then certainly we cannot have the level of social services that Canada enjoys.

(Nothing like jabbing a sharp stick through the bars of a cage containing a twelve foot grizzly)

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
And old-dumb-me. I thought taxes and tea brought about the elimination of the idea of requiring a picture of the Royals on our currency. Britain, Australia, New Kiwiland, you're all in the same boat. Sad. Like Canadian banks being set up for the mass slaughter of crude oil futures. We have a lecherous bunch on Wall Street.

Have any of the graduate geniuses of the University of Toronto done studies to find out what Canadian tax dollars do for you? If things cost less here in the US and are taxed less, then certainly we cannot have the level of social services that Canada enjoys.

(Nothing like jabbing a sharp stick through the bars of a cage containing a twelve foot grizzly)

LMAO - But I will say that my drive through Ontario was smooth sailing on well maintained roads, unlike the kidney rattling washboard interstates in Michigan.

TBammer wrote:

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
And old-dumb-me. I thought taxes and tea brought about the elimination of the idea of requiring a picture of the Royals on our currency. Britain, Australia, New Kiwiland, you're all in the same boat. Sad. Like Canadian banks being set up for the mass slaughter of crude oil futures. We have a lecherous bunch on Wall Street.

Have any of the graduate geniuses of the University of Toronto done studies to find out what Canadian tax dollars do for you? If things cost less here in the US and are taxed less, then certainly we cannot have the level of social services that Canada enjoys.

(Nothing like jabbing a sharp stick through the bars of a cage containing a twelve foot grizzly)

LMAO - But I will say that my drive through Ontario was smooth sailing on well maintained roads, unlike the kidney rattling washboard interstates in Michigan.

They aren't all bad. Under the Michigan Lane Mile formula (that needs to be abolished btw), counties with the most lane miles get the most highway funding so, roads in the Upper get more funding (but less population) than roads in the lower. Should be based on population density not lane miles. Oh well, Lansing is backwards in many respects.

Not really relative to my original post, but worth noting anyway.

I tend to buy my motor fuel for the cars and trucks in Toledo because it's close and it's almost always less expensive because their tax rate on motor fuel is less than Michigan.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Have any of the graduate geniuses of the University of Toronto done studies to find out what Canadian tax dollars do for you? If things cost less here in the US and are taxed less, then certainly we cannot have the level of social services that Canada enjoys.

Like "universal" provincial health care that covers virtually everyone? :W

Yeah, talk about jabbing the stick. ;)

SidecarFlip wrote:
I didn't post the thread comment to complain about prices. Just as a warning sort of that at the pump prices will increase. I use a lot of diesel on the farm, usually buy 1000 gallons at a time so price impacts my bottom line.

When it was 4+ bucks a gallon, it really impacted my bottom line. Between the cost of fuel and spiraling fertilizer costs (inputs), the commodity cost went up which meant you grocery store prices also went up.

Really nothing new. A chain reaction of rising prices. Happens more often than not.

"commodity cost went up"? It also means you get paid more for your crops. So it's probably a "wash" for you. :@

In reality, if fuel cost is a high concern to some RVers, maybe they should park them for a while. In the meantime I will enjoy ours. Life is short and good health can be fleeting. ;)

Big side benefit to gas prices going up...a lot less people on the road!

"commodity cost went up"? It also means you get paid more for your crops. So it's probably a "wash" for you.

Food companies then purchase foreign. Travel prices are high, park prices are high Quicksilver is up on jacks. This makes things better for me or better for anyone else? Oh goody this means I can grin like a fool when a big correction hits the market but does not affect me. What's a few hundred grand loss, but pocket change, right?

SoundGuy wrote:
Every time an American posts about fuel costs I just roll my eyes. :B Here in town this morning I noticed the price of regular @ $1.20 Cdn per litre ... with a US gallon = 3.785 litres that means a US gallon here would be ~ $4.54 Cdn or at the current exchange rate ~ $3.53 US. Quit yer whinin'! :W

Most of the way south this year diesel was 3.00 bucks to 3.39 going through 5 western states. Its not that far off from what we pay in the BC interior and actually more expensive than Alberta. An Albertan pays the equivalent of 2.95 a gallon so if they are heading south they will probably pay more for fuel all the way south. Same for those from Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Further east in the states diesel seems to get cheaper. BC seems to be about 30 US cents per US gallon more expensive. None of our vehicles use gas so I don't pay attention to it. I noticed this summer that gas seemed slightly more than diesel in Canada but diesel is more than gas here in California. Power here is about 2 times what we pay in BC. Our motorhome is diesel but our cars are electric so more pricey to drive here with the car. Still comparatively cheap though.