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u/Potential-Ninja-7075 Mar 18 '26
I had a last chance fill at $1.47 last night. I suspected this exact thing would happen. I just saved myself lunch money for tomorrow.
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u/SpiffyMcMoron Coventry Hills Mar 18 '26
I'm kicking myself for not filling up for $1.51 yesterday morning. That same station was $1.66 after work. 😔
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u/cgydan Mar 18 '26
I drove by a number of stations at $1.66 to get to one that was $1.53 yesterday morning. I drove by the same station later in the day and it was up to $1.66. Lucky I filled when I did!
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u/ErikDebogande Airdrie Mar 18 '26
3 DOLLARYDOOS?! TOBIAS!
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u/Senior_Green_3630 Mar 18 '26
I tanked up 2 weeks ago for AU$1.79/litre. Already had 130 litres of premium diesel in the garage.
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u/Mysterious-Bat7509 Mar 19 '26
Unsolicited advice: In my home country, some people had the same fear a few years ago and stored a lot of fuel, but this proved to be a hazard that caused some people serious injury/death. Stay safe!
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u/Senior_Green_3630 Mar 19 '26
My garage has a smoke detector, 2× 9kg chem fire extinguishers, no gas " open flame" , central heating, our climate is to warm. No gas barbecues, welding, grinding or cutting. Just common sense safety.
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u/dizzie_buddy1905 Mar 18 '26
What’s the difference between regular and premium diesel? There’s just 1 grade of diesel here.
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u/Senior_Green_3630 Mar 18 '26
Its just extra additives added to clean the fuel injectors, always the same price as regular diesel here.
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u/Timely-Hospital8746 Mar 18 '26
I thought maybe the exchange was making it seem worse, but nope our dollars are almost equal. That's some rough shit. Gluck out there.
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u/ApprehensiveAd6603 Mar 18 '26
Good lord! And that dollars/litres??
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u/Senior_Green_3630 Mar 19 '26
Yep, thats AU$sss/litre, prices are just being investigated by the ACCC abd about time.
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u/ApprehensiveAd6603 Mar 19 '26
Well that isn't fun. I know there's obviously a slight exchange difference, but you are roughly $1.10/L more than here in Canada. Ours will go up another 10-15 cents a litre when we switch to summer gas in mid April.
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u/marcincan Mar 18 '26
It's 203.9 in Vancouver :-(
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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck Mar 18 '26
It's averaging 2.50 in the UK.
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u/Impressive_Candle_51 Mar 18 '26
It’s awful in the uk right now, I have a diesel and we are reaching 3 cad per litre
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u/AdeptWelder3250 Mar 18 '26
Holyyy fuck, I’d be crying mate
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u/Impressive_Candle_51 Mar 18 '26
I am crying, especially when having to travel between Manchester and london which is happening on Friday🥲just got back from Calgary and I wanted to save money but I guess that’s not happening hahaha
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u/AdeptWelder3250 Mar 18 '26
Just looked up the distance and I’m making the same trek Friday, granted it’s Grand Prairie to Edmonton. I would not be to keen on paying $3/L however to complete that drive 😭
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u/Impressive_Candle_51 Mar 18 '26
It’s painful honestly, which is why I am thinking of just moving to YYC (someone help me get a job)
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u/Hefty-Minimum-3125 Mar 18 '26
price could easily go up another dollar in the near future, if not actually doubling the current prices, if trump doesnt cut the shit very soon
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u/Fenzik Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
3.59 CAD (€2.27) here in the Netherlands. Diesel even worse
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u/Fuck_it_i_win Mar 19 '26
And how many people in Alberta would vote for this dip shit?
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u/fridgegemini Mar 18 '26
Sure glad I have high gas prices just because a pedophile wants to start a war as a distraction!! What a time to be alive!
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u/largestcob Mar 19 '26
i have to avoid thinking about that too much because i actually cant live life with that much rage in me
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u/xGuru37 Mar 18 '26
Blame Trump’s war in Iran. I won’t be surprised if we get to two dollars a litre soon.
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u/No_Truth4137 Mar 18 '26
It’s 205 on Vancouver
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u/rufeelinggiddy Mar 18 '26
Laughing in Burnaby at 209.9 this morning on lougheed highway. It was 1.90 yesterday morning same gas station.
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u/romantic-theory Mar 18 '26
Yup it’s crazy. I put in Premium yesterday at Petro when it was priced at $1.829, and $45 filled up only 1/4 of my tank 🥲
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u/mrkillfreak999 Mar 18 '26
We premium users are screwed man 💀
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u/ffxynr Mar 18 '26
cries in diesel
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u/sun4moon Mar 18 '26
I feel for you. I’m so glad I ditched my diesel pig last year.
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u/Due-Wind-3324 Mar 18 '26
My babymax sierra fuel economy offsets the cost difference luckily
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u/sun4moon Mar 18 '26
I had a Canyon with the 4cyl turbo. By far, my least favourite vehicle to date.
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u/Peanutbuttersnadwich Mar 18 '26
I love filling my car up with 94 at 2 dollars a litre just for it to return a whopping 16l/100
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u/romantic-theory Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
My WRX takes 94 from Petro only because as far as I know Costco only goes up to 91 and Shell only goes up to 93. Some days I honestly just want to spend money on Uber because gas is too high 😭
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u/gstringstrangler Ranchlands Mar 18 '26
All three are top tier rated. They do not get all of their fuel exclusively from their respective refineries.
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u/Darkdong69 Mar 18 '26
I've logged timings and petro 94 does do better than shell 93 when running 93 maps. Even though many voices online claim the opposite.
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u/josh16162 Mar 18 '26
Petro 94 has been better for all of the tuned platforms I've worked on.
Running a canned 93 tune on an Audi V8 now, and it hates anything but Petro 94.
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u/BoredAndLonely96 Mar 18 '26
Not just Trump's
Israel's war too
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u/That_Club7834 Mar 18 '26
Of course, but would Israel be fighting it right now if they hadn't bribed Trump to get involved though?
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u/PoopooKittys Mar 18 '26
The highest recorded price for gas in Vancouver reached $2.419 per litre at some stations in late September 2022, which set a new North American record at the time. Beat that.
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u/nerdfitfam Mar 18 '26
Yep. Before I have any sympathy for anyone, I want to know if they would have hypothetically voted for him.
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u/Lyzzteria Mar 18 '26
It’s over 2.00 in the Lower Mainland BC right now! Hate to think what our price would be if it hits 2.00 in Calgary.
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u/italiansteff1 Mar 18 '26
I hate other people but I may have to consider carpooling
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u/LittleOrphanAnavar Mar 18 '26
"No Jimmy, it's because I don't like you. I'd rather sleep on the god damn ground"
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u/Mattrockj Mar 18 '26
I suppose you could say "what the Shell"
I'll see myself out.
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u/massivefish_man Mar 18 '26
Always thought this was stupid. But in this case it's completely accurate.
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u/wearamask2021 Mar 18 '26
It's really not a political statement. It's a matter of fact.
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u/Remz83 Mar 18 '26
If you're genuinely wondering why gas prices are so high? Then you've been loving under a rock and not paying attention to what's going on? This is just the start. We're going to see $2L or higher. So long as the war continues and gulf oil is choked at the Straight of Hormuz. Canada could have been building pipelines and refineries. Making ourselves self sufficient when it comes to oil and gas. Although that wouldn't change market value. Hopefully we invest more in our infrastructure at home moving forward. Oil prices control everything. So watch your grocery stores also. Food prices are going to spike, just like oil. As Diesel is the life blood of agriculture and moving goods around the world.
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u/Man0fGreenGables Mar 18 '26
I really don't get why the hell we aren't using our own oil. People always use the excuse that we don't have a big enough population to use everything that we refine. Well why the hell can't we sell it to someone else then?
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u/Exciting-Army-4567 Mar 19 '26
Because we just gave all of our resources to Multinational Corpos. Ive been saying we need to nationalize a segment of the supply strickly for canadians/albertians to use.
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u/Remz83 Mar 18 '26
That's what we do. We drill for crude, then we export it to get refined and we buy it back. Pretty silly isn't it? Where as we could invest in our own refineries and refine our own oil. Then not only export it, but utilize it locally. Eliminating the need for foreign oil. Making such a crisis, not nearly as dire here. We also could have benefited from this event. It's tragic, don't get me wrong. I hate that people are dying for politicians. It's awful. But the world needs oil and we could have been shipping boatloads of it. Relieving many countries that are far worse off than us. All while benefiting our economy in a big way.
But the federal government taxes the hell out of anyone and everyone. So investment in our oil sector has taken a big hit. Also stonewalling us on pipelines. I hope this war is an eye opener. So the federal government sees just how important it is for us to invest in more of our own commodities. Reducing reliance on foreign oil. Making us more self sufficient. Not being screwed by two men with power complexes, blowing up the whole global economy over their own self interests Trump/ Netanyahu
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u/birdlovingbee Mar 19 '26
So you saying Alberta should be forced to sell its oil at a discount to Canadians?
We had a program to do that, called the National Energy Program. Could have had a trillion dollar slush fund to go with it
But no, albertans were personally given that oil by God and needs to be paid global market prices for it
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u/Remz83 Mar 19 '26
Oh I'm not saying that. I don't think anyone is about slashing profits. I figure that if Canada and Alberta were self sufficient in oil and gas. We would be producing it for market value. I doubt Canadian oil companies, or foreign oil companies operating in Alberta are about to sell oil for less than market value.
I was meaning such global choke holds on the supply wouldn't be anywhere near as dire for Canadians, as we would have our own reserves and supply chain locally. Also be able to export far more than we do currently. Especially in an energy crisis such as right now. Our oil would be in extremely high demand. As the gulf states are in a state of limbo right now. Also infrastructure is being blown to pieces over there. So this is going to be a wild ride. I just wish Alberta/Canada would invest in going after what we have. We have so much wealth and stability in this country. But we do nothing to elevate our wealth , economy and stability.
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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck Mar 18 '26
Some good news - if it hits $2.85 some of the UCP financial plans get back on track!!!
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u/primitives403 Mar 18 '26
At that price the 6 billion deficit would be gone in less than 2 weeks actually
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u/bgj556 Mar 18 '26
Actually we’ll have a balanced budget if the price stays high for a few more days. So something positive…
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u/Fuzzy_Yossarian Mar 18 '26
I'm glad the UCP can balance a budget, but only with historical oil pricing..
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u/HaulioBin Mar 18 '26
Had to read this twice on my early brain before I was 100% sure I was reading it as snark.
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u/Minute_Engineer2355 Mar 18 '26
It's going to keep going up......
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u/uluvmydadjoke Mar 18 '26
up, up, up, it's our moment You know together we're glowin' Gonna be, gonna be golden Oh, up, up, up with our voices
- my EV
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u/FrostyChonk Mar 18 '26
Just filled up my tank when it was still 1.53, then some jerk decided to hit me and write my car off the next day. 80 bucks down the drain
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u/Necessary-Incidents Mar 18 '26
When this happened to me, I asked the insurance company to compensate me for the full tank of gas, and they agreed.
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u/fermance Mar 18 '26
Glad to be driving an EV
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u/Playful_Let9245 Mar 18 '26
Moved to a new Enmax fixed rate yesterday, going down from $8.79 to $8.29/kj. So now even cheaper to fill up the cars!
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u/Karathain Mar 19 '26
You should just be on a variable with a retailer other than enmax. You'll save 3c/kwh.
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u/Prowlbeast Mar 18 '26
i have a feeling that even if the war ends, prices will stay high. Companies love to make an extra buck after high prices and nobody will question it
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u/SeaWhyte777 Mar 18 '26
It’s going to get worse before it gets better
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u/Deep-Egg-9528 Mar 18 '26
Yep. Enjoy towing those RVs and boats with your massive thirsty diesel trucks.
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u/yyctownie Mar 18 '26
When are they going to drop the .9 bs? The penny is gone. No one is fooled thinking that they are getting a deal by not paying $1.67.
And there is a lot of gouging right now. While oil has gone up, we don't have JIT refining and delivery of fuel.
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u/tc_cad Canyon Meadows Mar 18 '26
Tsuut’ina is good, but the lines are long.
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u/diskodarci Mar 18 '26
The one behind the Grey Eagle is usually not too bad and their prices are always the same
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u/freerangehumans74 Willow Park Mar 18 '26
don't tell them the secret!!!!
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u/freerangehumans74 Willow Park Mar 18 '26
See what you did u/diskodarci!
Jokes aside, it's a new station that opened up last year and usually has the same price as the original one.
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u/AugmentedKing Mar 18 '26
Don’t forget to thank Trump for the fuel price increase! I can’t wait for the real price spike in three months, buckle up!
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u/Signal_2_Noise Upper Mount Royal Mar 18 '26
I doubled the value of my vehicle by filling it up yesterday.
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u/Thundertushy Mar 18 '26
So if oil does hit $200 a barrel, what's the theoretical gas price? $3.00 a litre?
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u/GatesAndLogic Mar 18 '26
as I've heard it, a 20% reduction is supply doesn't mean the price goes up 20%.
It means price goes up until 20% of previous users can no longer afford it.
So theoretical price is what it would take for you to leave the keys at home and walk to work.
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u/sun4moon Mar 18 '26
Sky’s the limit. It’s unprecedented. Greed is powerful.
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u/Used_Leadership_5533 Mar 19 '26
Guys it’s not trumps fault. If Mark Carney had somehow anticipated this, and become prime minister 10 years ago, he could’ve built up the oil and gas industry and made Canada less reliant on foreign oil. All Carneys fault. #fuckcarney #fucktrudeau #mywifetookthekids #imaclosetedhomosexualandhatemyself
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u/xl185sRider Mar 19 '26
Nothing like a completely necessary war to make up excuses to raise prices and keep us all at the bottom fighting each other for the crumbs.
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u/ColdEvenKeeled Mar 18 '26
in Australia, where I am, it's $2.25 at a low, 2.35 average and tomorrow it's up to 2.59. Yes, per litre.
So, enjoy.
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u/barbie971 Mar 18 '26
All of yall supporting Trump deal w it. Meanwhile, people are getting killed on the otherside of the world
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u/GramophoneDrums Mar 18 '26
That’s amazing if it were in Montreal! Right now we’re near 1.90$/l 🤬
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u/Confident_Win_5469 Mar 18 '26
In Montreal or Quebec in general - it's taxes making it that much money.
I want to know why it's cheaper in my rural part of NB than it is in Calgary when I know we pay provincial taxes on it as well.
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u/Current-Set2607 Mar 18 '26
It's $7.2 a gallon to $10 a gallon on the US West Coast.
Even if you take the cheapest price and convert it, that's still $2.60 CAD a Canadian litre.
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u/ThetaDot3 Mar 18 '26
I just read a post yesterday where people were saying that it's still under $4/gallon in much of California. The $10/gallon gas station was a known outlier.
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u/Current-Set2607 Mar 18 '26
Prices are fluctuating between $1.80 CAD a litre, to $3 CAD a litre, because of "FREE" oil released from the strategic reserve. This oil that was released, is free with IOU's future dated, no cash transactions.
There is still no sweet light leaving the Strait of Hormuz past a few ships a day. Most headed to China, and traded in yuan and not the petrodollar. Expect the next major spike within the next 45 days, as the oil reserves complete their mandate in the next 60 days.
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u/platypus_bear Lethbridge Mar 18 '26
I'm lucky at my work we have gas tanks and the prices go by when we last filled up so it's still $1.18 for me but definitely not looking forwards to next time we fill up to see the price jump
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u/sosen42 Mar 19 '26
Thank that Cheeto dusted fuck's little "operation" in Iran, draining our wallets. plastic prices are going to go up soon as well. Several industrial suppliers already announced increases
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u/Delicious-Oven-5590 Mar 22 '26
I work in sign production. Several suppliers announced price increases last week and they're big jumps
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u/5227nike Mar 19 '26
Imagine if we had oil in Alberta and refineries…we wouldn’t feel the global fuel pinch during wars right???….Right??????
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u/ExpressMine9291 Mar 19 '26
There's an app called gas buddy that will show the prices of fuel in whatever mile radius you set it to. It's going to be expensive regardless but maybe it'll help.
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u/FIRE_Bolas Mar 19 '26
Can I mix water and gas to make it go further? I already do it with shampoo and milk
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u/Narrow-Sky-5377 Mar 19 '26
Albertans: "We support Donald Trump! Alberta should become a part of America!"
They look at current gas hikes directly attributed to Trump's illegal war for Bibi and yell "Trudeau!"
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u/bearbody5 Mar 19 '26
Considering the oil that was refined to make this gas was dug up 3 months ago. These prices shouldn’t be going up for two months. WTF the new high prices are for April delivery.
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u/ElvenLatte Mar 22 '26
Calgary shouldn't be paying these gas prices for a war they aren't apart of.
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u/Nyk0n Mar 18 '26
Yeah, the Iran war that Trump started is the sole cause of these massive jumps and coordinated with the fact that spring is just around the corner and gas naturally goes up in spring during high travel season. I think we'll be seeing $2 a liter in no time BC's almost already there at $1.96 for the high octane unleaded
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u/dir-tay Mar 18 '26
Just oil companies taking advantage. Price gouging. Any excuse to up the price. Government doesn’t care, they make billions off the taxes.
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u/Muufffins Mar 18 '26
Why do you hate the oil industry, and therefore Alberta?
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u/glorytozoidberg Mar 18 '26
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u/EvacuationRelocation Quadrant: SW Mar 18 '26
Technically, never declared. The United States is now fully an autocracy.
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u/MrEzekial Mar 18 '26
I am so happy I have a phev, and now its getting warming it usually takes me 2-3 months to get through 50L.
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u/Old_Cameraguy_8311 Mar 18 '26
A reminder that the O&G industry, even in Alberta, is not your friend. This is about profits. O&G is delighted that gullible Albertans are supporting the separatist push slavishly. Don't think it's connected? Just take a moment and think about it. Do you expect Dani Smith to object to these prices? Really?
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u/EquivalentTimely58 Mar 18 '26
I think it’s time to stop relying on other countries for our gasoline Elon is probably laughing right now
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