[Newsbot]

Title: Worried about gas prices' Blame the Canadian Dollar
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2014-04-26 00:13:04
Canadian

[Jabberwalker]

That would explain why every gas pump in town simultaneously changed their price in lock-step, regardless of the brand or refinery that they came from.

[DrCaleb]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

That would explain why every gas pump in town simultaneously changed their price in lock-step, regardlaess of the brand or refinery that they came from.

Even though refineries in Quebec get their oil from the North Sea? No, it doesn't.

[PluggyRug]

Blame the speculators.

[andyt]

The storage tanks in gas stations and depots sure are flexible. If oil prices go up, all the storage tanks are immediately empty and have to be filled with this more expensive gas. When oil prices drop, those same tanks have massive volumes in them so it takes quite a while before they can be filled with the new, less expensive gas. Amazing that.

[PluggyRug]

andyt andyt:

The storage tanks in gas stations and depots sure are flexible. If oil prices go up, all the storage tanks are immediately empty and have to be filled with this more expensive gas. When oil prices drop, those same tanks have massive volumes in them so it takes quite a while before they can be filled with the new, less expensive gas. Amazing that.

[Jabberwalker]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

That would explain why every gas pump in town simultaneously changed their price in lock-step, regardlaess of the brand or refinery that they came from.

Even though refineries in Quebec get their oil from the North Sea? No, it doesn't.

Exactly.

[PJB]

I wonder if I went on Dragon's Den or did one of those public funding things to build 4 massive refineries in western Canada. We could become the worlds largest fossil fuel producing country and become a super-power...."Ring" off goes the alarm clock...Wake up idiot you live in Canada. A country that is to damn complacent to do a damn thing for itself.

[herbie]

It went up 9c a liter overnight because they CAN. And there's nothing you can do about it but whine.