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Gas Prices to Hit $2.19 in Toronto on the Weekend

bananaman

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Kommander1975 said:
It's going to be $1.93 a litre in Toronto on the weekend, that means that my neighbor's Chevy pick-up truck which takes 127 litres to fill will cost..... a whopping $247.06 to fill..... he can go 3 times back and forth from Toronto to Mississauga and will need another $247.06 fill-up...

that's great! That's what we get for being little pussies who never boycott the blood-sucking oil companies.
Perhaps if people actually made intelligent choices about the cars / trucks they drove the pain would not be so great. Your neighbour made a poor decision and now needs to pay that price.

While I am not a TTC user I do choose to live in the city vs the 'burbs and drive a 6 cyl mid size car (and ride my Harley whenever practical). Alot of people should be re-thinking their decision to live so far from where they work.
 

Svend

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A few years ago I used to have a long one-way 45 minute commute, then I decided to buy a home that was a 10 minute walk away. It was great, I could go home at lunch - play with my dog, save a pile of money.
Six months later, the company moved and I was back to commuting! I quit that place knowing that life can be a lot less stressful if you make certain choices.

Looks like I won't escape the latest hikes, everyone will be forced to pass on product prices. Let's not panic, there's no need to self prophesize any doom.
 

Kommander1975

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**NEWSFLASH**

Prices of $2.19 a litre coming for the weekend according to a buddy of mine that works at a gas station................
 

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Kommander, is this the same buddy who knows someone who bought the 1963 corvette split window for 500.00 because the guy who owned it died in vietnam?

Just remember: those sites with the extravagant gas prices were posted by anonymous people....

keep it up and we'll see $3.99 a litre fuel prices....

hey wait, I just looked out my window and saw them changing the price to $12.42 a litre....

Sheesh.....
 

tboy

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Esco: you have to remove the starch or ?? from it first...you can't just go to Loblaws and buy a bottle and pour it in your tank. Well, you could but you'd mess up your engine pretty good!

Bad thing about running your diesel on vegetable/canola/sunflower oils: your exhaust smells like french fries...Can you imagine the road rage when everyone's stuck in traffic craving some fries? lol
 

elmufdvr

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yea well i am still going to ride my motorcycle..it will still cost less to run..so the money i save i will fill up my 69 GTO and go do some burn outs.... you think you suv burns fuel... it is going to cost $10.00 to go to the gas station alone...lol.... can anyone say MAD MAX..... get the fuel... the wounderfull fuel...ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! :cool:
 

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Pleasing_Brian said:
Ever stop to think that that's actually a good thing for the world?
I already gave noticed to gave up my unit and move my office back home where i first started.
 

WhaWhaWha

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Time to get reacquainted with my Bicycle
 

ottawasub

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At work today the "rumour" was $4 by the weekend. How do the exagerrated uninformed gloom-and-doomers continue to feed everyone`s paranoia?

Didn`t we learn our lessons from Y2K?
 

tboy

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friggin people and their rumours, the only thing worse than starting a rumour is spreading one.

Don't you realize that everytime you repeat the rumour you give the oil companies that much more incentive to raise the prices?

Like if a rumour started that they were going to ban the selling and manufacture of condoms......(started by the latex industry).....what do you think that would do to the price of condoms?

BTW I heard a rumour that gas outside my home was being changed to $22.42 a litre and you'd have to pay a $10.00 cover fee to enter the gas station.....
 
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peelcowboy said:
Sometimes I just don't understand where you folk's heads are at. The gas price is a temporary result of U.S. refining capacity shrinking in the wake of Rita.

Exactly.. in the US. I do not believe that Canada imports gasoline from the USA. It is an opportunity for the oil companies to gouge us here.

Alberta is sure enjoying their surplus!!.. so much money, they don't know what to do with it!!... citizens are getting a cheque for $400 with more to come later!!
 

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tboy said:
friggin people and their rumours, the only thing worse than starting a rumour is spreading one.

Don't you realize that everytime you repeat the rumour you give the oil companies that much more incentive to raise the prices?

Like if a rumour started that they were going to ban the selling and manufacture of condoms......(started by the latex industry).....what do you think that would do to the price of condoms?

BTW I heard a rumour that gas outside my home was being changed to $22.42 a litre and you'd have to pay a $10.00 cover fee to enter the gas station.....
Bang on...the Hamilton Spectator today reported that the whole gas increase frenzy which led to fist-fights (!!) at some gas stations is rumour driven. They report that some stations raised prices not because their corporations told them to, but to make more $ off the poor suckers in the line ups. According to the Competition Act, this is NOT illegal. However, if more than 1 station "colluded" in order to do so, it would be.

The paper is also reporting that this gas buying frenzy may also bump the price up because a higher demand is being created artificially.

The rumour-mongering was definitely the topic-du-jour around my office yesterday. Price of gas on the way home: $1.02/l, price this a.m. $1.04/l.

Wow, what a huge increase!
 

tboy

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Friggin bunch of lemmings that's all I can say......

Hope everyone that went out and lined up for gas yesterday realizes they just caused the price to go up unneccessarily and played right into the big oil company's hands.....
 

Kurt

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Haven't seen anything in Richmond Hill over $1.04 yet.
I did hear that the indepentant down the street was up to $1.24 and they are usually the cheapest.

Kurt
 
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