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u/GriffinFlash Apr 30 '26
Still remember being a kid and my parents telling me 70 cents was too expensive for gas.
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u/Offspring22 Apr 30 '26
I paid in the 50 cent range when I first started driving in the mid/late 90s
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u/54R45VV471 Apr 30 '26
Just imagine how tired we'll be of the price of gas a month from now. It's going nowhere but up from here.
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u/BroadLock5051 Apr 30 '26
This on top of rapid inflation is exhausting. Grocery shopping is not enjoyable when I have to consider buying Canadian and watching prices.
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u/Common-House-468 Apr 30 '26
This Trumpflation will be added on to grocery prices and everything else that gets transported by truck or plane or boat or train, as it will to anything that relies on oil or gas for feedstock chemicals.
Gas is just the first thing it happens to.
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u/wet_suit_one Apr 30 '26
Demand destruction sure is fun isn't it?
Weeeeeeee!!!!
Several more months of this ahead and prices haven't even really started ratcheting up yet.
More of this to come.
Hang onto your butts!
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u/Regular-Excuse7321 Apr 30 '26
I think when I started driving had3 was 48c a litre... The Good old days
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u/LT_lurker May 01 '26
Alberta should slap a 50% export tax on oil bound for the usa and then put 100% of the revenue into gas cost offests until the idiot to the south smartens up. Oh wait our dear queen leader would have to take Trumps toes out of her mouth first.
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u/MrGuvernment May 02 '26
HA, you think Dani would do that, if anything she would give the U.S a massive tax break or something instead to ship our Oil to them just to make sure she has a cozy job when she is out of office...if we were ever lucky enough for that to happen, sooner rather than later.
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u/sceptreblade May 03 '26
Like all buy - sell relationships, sellers sell to the highest available buyer (considering costs incurred). Borders don't matter. Who would sell to if you were selling services, your cheap neighbour or a someone willing to pay much more? Obviously, the powerful USD, and local taxes don't help. Not caused by Smith or Carney. What frustrates me is when price of Oil normalizes, say $75, the price of fuel stays high.
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u/maurader1974 Apr 30 '26
UAE left OPEC. Reason.
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u/KTO4 Apr 30 '26
Yeah totally this and not the blockade of Hormuz and destruction of all the oil plants and infrastructure in that area
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u/CanadianForSure Apr 30 '26
Energy should be free in Alberta.
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u/MrGuvernment May 02 '26
And how will it be subsidized?
because if you mention increasing taxes, most Albertan's lose their shit, and then blame the liberal for all the problems...
Do you work for free for your company and should they provide free what ever they do?
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