Why Gas Got So Expensive
herbie @ Sun Jun 05, 2022 12:02 pm
$2.339 in the Lower Mainland. $10.619 a gallon.
And BC Transit stuffed a survey in my mailbox. How can we improve our services in your area.
Maybe have service in our area?
Sorry - no such option. Only responses we wish to receive on this survey.
... more frequentSkytrain service (to Telkwa or Granisle?)
Strutz @ Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:27 pm
herbie herbie:
$2.339 in the Lower Mainland. $10.619 a gallon.
And BC Transit stuffed a survey in my mailbox. How can we improve our services in your area.
Maybe have service in our area?
Sorry - no such option. Only responses we wish to receive on this survey.
... more frequentSkytrain service (to Telkwa or Granisle?)
And BC Transit stuffed a survey in my mailbox. How can we improve our services in your area.
Maybe have service in our area?
Sorry - no such option. Only responses we wish to receive on this survey.
... more frequentSkytrain service (to Telkwa or Granisle?)
I live in the lower mainland and I haven't received this survey... weird, or maybe given the mentality of the way things work, maybe not so weird...
herbie @ Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:14 pm
The survey was for Transit improvements along Hwy16 (Highway of Tears), so you wouldn't have got one.
They run one bus every couple days in three sections of it. If there's no accidents, road work, snow or summer traffic one could possibly catch all three and make it all the way in one day. It doesn't even serve towns not directly ON the highway.
If you're willing to stand beside the track out in the snow or rain with your luggage piled beside you, there's a train that runs even less often.
They've spent more on surveys and Danger Don't Hitchhike billboards than they have on actual transit services up here.
Strutz @ Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:23 pm
Ah, ok I get it. That's pretty shitty of them, not to mention insulting, to even ask for input for the obvious.
Before Greyhound went tits up did they service your area sufficiently?
Scape @ Tue Jun 14, 2022 12:52 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL2FRNO ... WL&index=7
herbie @ Tue Jun 14, 2022 9:05 pm
Strutz Strutz:
Ah, ok I get it. That's pretty shitty of them, not to mention insulting, to even ask for input for the obvious.
Before Greyhound went tits up did they service your area sufficiently?
Before Greyhound went tits up did they service your area sufficiently?
There was a subcontractor who did the run to Prince George daily. You could connect to Greyhound there or in Vanderhoof. In it's final years, it just brought you to Vanderhoof to get on the Greyhound.
Much of the revenue was from parcels, once the couriers underbid them & Greyhound on everything it all faded away. Now there's just a Northern Health bus that goes to University Hospital on Weds. Most of the riders are "helping Granma" and come home laden with WalMart bags.
DrCaleb @ Wed Jun 15, 2022 8:38 am
Artificial scarcity is how. That's how they always raise the price. They know their days are numbered, and they are making us move away from them as fast as possible.
Scape @ Tue Jun 21, 2022 1:12 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyn8wqqA_SU
herbie @ Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:28 pm
#1 reason.
We're STILL buying it.
Scape @ Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:25 pm
$1:
I know, I know. Didn’t we just do this episode? Kinda, sorta. But not to this extent. In our Peak Oil episode we reviewed the history of oil as a commodity, currency and weapon on the world stage. This episode picks up where we left off to drill deeper (pun intended) into the story of crude and how it shows up as $5 gasoline at the pumps. We debunk several myths surrounding high gasoline prices and unequivocally point the finger at who’s to blame.
Royal Bank of Canada, fucking WALL STREET IS RAPING THE ECONOMY
PEAK OIL
$1:
We dropped this episode a few months back to try and explain why oil prices were so high. It is a very deep dive into the history of oil prices, commodities markets, and all of the factors that go into the price of oil and the exchanges that they’re traded on.
I feel like this first episode does a really good job explaining the market in general and how oil basically moves from the ground to wind up as something that’s traded on commodity exchanges. But the one that we’re going to drop tomorrow is really an explainer behind what drives the prices when you take that pump out of your hands at the gas station and you put it in your car.
So tomorrow we’re going to pack you with enough information and resources to destroy all of the myths that you hear in the pundit class and in the mainstream media. And I know this is a really obnoxious thing to say, but I promise you everything that you’re hearing in the mainstream media and in that punditry class is wrong. They’re all getting it wrong, and we’ll explain why.
I feel like this first episode does a really good job explaining the market in general and how oil basically moves from the ground to wind up as something that’s traded on commodity exchanges. But the one that we’re going to drop tomorrow is really an explainer behind what drives the prices when you take that pump out of your hands at the gas station and you put it in your car.
So tomorrow we’re going to pack you with enough information and resources to destroy all of the myths that you hear in the pundit class and in the mainstream media. And I know this is a really obnoxious thing to say, but I promise you everything that you’re hearing in the mainstream media and in that punditry class is wrong. They’re all getting it wrong, and we’ll explain why.
Scape @ Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:33 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcBrj-Ob8Xo
herbie @ Sat Jun 25, 2022 6:28 pm
$6.99 a gallon? That's $2.45 Cdn a litre
Biden better cut all gas taxes so Americans can get ripped off even more.
fools.
herbie @ Fri Jul 15, 2022 5:00 pm
https://ckpgtoday.ca/2022/07/12/unprece ... o-experts/
McTeague finally acted like President of Canadians for Affordable Energy instead of an oil company shill simply passing on excuses.
I noticed last weekend gas prices were 17c higher than they were out in the boonies and Vancouver. So somebody's just pocketing the 18.5 cent transit tax included in Vancouver prices AND the 17 cent difference.
Come on conservative members, lets all bawl about the two cent higher Carbon Tax in that 2.169/L
DrCaleb @ Wed Jul 20, 2022 9:37 am
There’s no gasoline shortage in Canada. Here’s why you’re paying more for it anyway
herbie @ Wed Jul 20, 2022 10:03 am
No! No! It's those Greenie Enviro-Nazis. THEY forced gas prices up, they're the bad guys:
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/john-w ... fb97366106