I wrote about the gouging at the pumps Nov. 5, 2015. The prices slowly came down to about $.40 behind what the price of oil should reflect, to about $.92 per litre.
Gas in Calgary was $.54 per litre at the same time, so we here in Duncan were paying $.38 more for the same gas.
Now that the Arabs are putting a cap on oil production and the price of a barrel of oil went up to about $30 a barrel, up about $2 a barrel, which should only be a $.02 or $.03 rise at the pump, and our American-owned gas stations put the price back up to a greedy $.99.9 per litre, that’s $.09 which would be for $90 per barrel price, if the numbers don’t lie, so we are being gouged close to $.50 per litre today.
I’m mad as hell at how we pensioners and disabled suffer when those in power put whatever price they want on gas and I guess they’ll get away with it if no one complains. Here is a forum in this newspaper to voice your complaints and see if something can’t be done to right this terrible wrong that our government wont do because the higher the price the more tax dollars we pay.
I believe it’s time to start a movement called “Citizens Against Unfair Gas Prices and Price Fixing”.
What do you think?
Ross Calderwood
Duncan