The rumor mill on the net and radio was abuzz with stories since Friday of gas prices rising today, even though the price of crude is on the wane.
That’s all fine and good; most people with the money and the savvy rushed out to their local gas station and filled up over the weekend.
Alas people on the north, and I presume some on the south, coast of Labrador do not have that luxury.
Our gas stations do not open on weekends.
So anyone who had to put gas in there pickups, cars, ATV or outboards got hit with a 11 cent rise per liter this morning, without the luxury of maybe beating the odds and filling up over the weekend.
Add to that insult is the fact the gas has been sitting in the storage tanks for months.
Add to that the fact that tax on 177.6 is higher than the 152.6 in St. John’s and the 156.6 in the Lake Melville region, and they have all the benefits of public works, we have something not much better than an outback road, the again it has been raining.
It has always puzzled me why the prices of petroleum products have a moderate differential between St. John’s and Lake Melville and the difference between Lake Melville and Nain are always in the 20 cents or more range, storage of product considered.
It does not affect me that much as others, it is more the principal, and why can’t something be done about it one wonders.
4 comments:
There's a bunch of criminals running the gas companies, and they should all be shot in my opinion.
Love the mushroom and berry pics.
I dont see why more retailers cant do what one of the gas outlets does here. The Cartwright Hotel always has a day of grace and does not raise the price until a day later.
On another note I will be in Nain on Thursday for a week, might see you around!
Well give my best wished to the folks at the Hotel gas bar, pity more people not around like that.
We have Woodwards Oil, tighter than a fish's arse is how me pappy would decribe that lot.
Give us a call, under Fran in the book.
Woodwards is here as well, but they dont give a crap about regular Joes as long as they have the big airline and Hydro fuel contracts!
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