Price of gasoline in Vancouver, BC, Canada

Hi, the discussion on the price of fuel got me wondering what the price of gasoline in Vancouver is, in US dollars per US gallon.

The high price I saw today was $1.569/L in Canadian $. That equates to $4.615/gal in US$ per US gallon. I'm going to stop driving my truck (12mi/gal US)...
Luckily, I also have a VW diesel that gets over 40mi/gal US. When I retire in 2 years, I might have to close the gate and lock it, and never leave my little 40ac slice of Heaven again...

Some of our high prices in BC are because of a dispute with Alberta over a pipeline, but that's not the whole story. Prices are high all over Canada. I don't know why...

I sometimes think it would be nice to not have a phone, or internet, or TV, and be as self-sufficient as I can in retirement. I could get by with a cheap cellphone plan, no land line, and no TV, but I like the Internet, and I like driving around too. I guess I'll just downsize as best I can, maybe drive a bit less...

Did you guys start driving less in retirement? Were your other bills lower?

Thanks,

Troy

Yea but you get "FREE" heath care(LOL)

Wife made a comment yesterday about the price of gas here in Missouri. She said it was $2.499 per gal

blunosr ...where do you make home in Canada....Northern BC ?



Bob...

Hi, our health care is not exactly free. It goes by
your income. We also have to pay for prescriptions
up to a threshold, then its free. Our beer and
liquor is higher here but drinkers use more health
care. Ed Will Oliver BC

It?s $1,20 a litre here is southwestern Ontario today, been hovering between that and $1.25 lately. BC seems to pay more for everything than
the rest of the country, guess it?s the price they pay for the milder weather.

I don't know what your health care costs are, but I just googled ours, and they are terrible! You have a health care system, we have health care businesses, for big profit! Here is what I found;

Average monthly family premium (without subsidies)?$1,021, which is 23 percent higher than the average premium of $833 for 2016 open enrollment.
Average annual deductible for families?$8,352, which is a 5 percent increase since 2016.

That adds up to $20,604, you can buy a lot of gas for that!

While I haven?t left the farm today, and have no
need or intention to, I did have to drive into Toronto
yesterday. Gas in the big smoke was $1.33 .
Meanwhile back here at home local pumps offered
gas at $1.30 per litre. I booked 2500 litres of gas at
the local Co-op card lock on Monday, and will never
have to pay more than $1.24 per litre. Cheapest
Diesel I saw yesterday was $1.26 per litre. Both BC
and Ontario have placed a carbon tax grab on the
gas.

so, Canada here , allow me to give my take just filled the car , was $ 1.21 a litre , so $ 5.00 us or so a gallon pretty high ?
guess it is now factor in health care wife has had 3 bouts with cancer , wait times very little , out come very good and out of pocket expenses next to nothing
myself, had both a hip and knee replacement no real long wait times, out of pocket expenses nothing
IMO the biggest difference between out 2 countries is ,in the USA the haves ( ones with money & health care ) do not give a rats hind end about the ones that do not, and are not willing to pay one red cent ,for them either in health care, welfare , what ever
up here, people seem to be ok with paying more in property taxes. income taxes, gas & booze taxes , all kinda crap, if it means the less fortunate can get something as well
need to add , nothing special about me & my wife , what I described above is available to all canadians
bob

Hello, Russ: I am from Minnesota. The health care/health insurance debacle is a rather interesting one for me to keep looking at. About a year ago, I was ranting on the high cost of insurance to a social media friend of mine from Washington state. She went up to the point of telling me I was feeding her lies about the cost here in Minnesota. It prompted me to dig into it a bit further. I priced individual health insurance on the BCBS website for Minnesota for coverage in Western Minnesota. The premiums for my family of 4 totaled up to around $22,000 with a $6550 deductible, and our family was responsible for up to 2 deductibles, or $13,100. What I found to be equally interesting was the same plan, but in and around the Twin Cities Metro area to be around $15,000. These costs were without any subsidy. I have not done any pricing since last year, and we have my entire family covered in one group plan through an employer sponsored plan. It is essentially the same plan the individual plan was, but is a BCBS plan through work. I have been in and out of group plans since I first started working in the late 1980's, after college. I have seen premiums drop just once. I have seen premiums double twice. I have seen premiums remain flat twice. The rest of the time, I have seen premiums increase always in double digit percentages. The last time I tracked them over a 7 or 8 year period, the average annual premium increased amounted to 12 or 13 percent. I have also seen deductibles increase, as lower deductible plans were "phased out" by the insurance company. In closing, I remember reading an article on Yahoo news a year or two ago, where the writer interviewed people from 4 or 5 different countries. What was astounding, was all those interviewed talked about healthcare and/or health insurance coverage costing them "nothing," and they were sincere in their responses. I may not be the sharpest knife in a drawer, but there is no such thing as a "free ride." In these various nations, health care is paid for through some form of taxation, therefore it is truly NOT FREE. I don't have an answer for our situation here, but the hefty increases in costs cannot be sustained, especially for small employers and the self employed. In those firms where health insurance is a fringe benefit, the employer is having to pass on more and more of the cost to the employees, which ultimately will result in eating into the take home pay of workers.

I believe close to 45% of the provincial budget goes to healthcare here in Alberta, that's the main reason our taxes are high, I think they are high IMHO

The part about the carbon tax that I still don?t get is that if it is for the sake of the environment, why are Indians exempt from paying it? Their vehicles emit sunshine and rainbows?

A partial answer is: My wife and I drive less after retirement. We use to have at least 5 days a week that we both had a 10 mile commute to our work places. So for the two of use that would be a minimum of 200 miles/week. Now we usually go to town together and sometimes it's only once per week.

Concerning the price rise: It's the futures market (greed) driving the price of crude up. There is interesting info at https://oilprice.com/ Also it seems we're (North America) is flooding the Europe market with crude to counter Russia's crude export.

Alberta too. Works out to around 7.5 cents per liter when you include the additional GST.

The Indians have their own government and run it like they want to, like we used to do.

(quoted from post at 21:09:03 04/25/18) The Indians have their own government and run it like they want to, like we used to do.

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I forgot to add, for the love of money is the root of all evil.

It started eating into our wages years ago. I?m a retired autoworker, and we had several contracts, going back into the 1980?s, that we had to pay into the insurance. Usually it was a diversion of our COLA, so we essentially got less in raises over the years. About 2006, we gave up $3 per hour to pay for retiree healthcare. The whole thing was a factor in the GM bankruptcy. Over the years the copays and deductibles got higher, at one point over $6K per year. I?m retired now, so I don?t know what it is now, but I doubt it has gotten better. I do know the new tier 2 employees get a much slimmer package, and nothing after retirement. Salary retirees are on their own also.

Like '1984' some members of society are more equal than others

No, health care is not free in the rest of the world that has socialized health care, but data shows the end result is, they pay about half of what we do and their life expectancy is at least 2 years greater. We are getting screwed!

I leave the pickup parked unless I have a good reason to use it. Most of the time I drive a very comfortable full size sedan gets about twice the gas mileage as the pickup. Other operating costs like tires, oil and maintenance are around half the cost as the pickup as well.

Gas an oil prices are inching up again from short term lows and the vacation travel season is about to start. It won't be too long before someone decides that things have been quiet in the Middle East for way too long, it's time to stir that pot again and that will send oil prices higher.

Ever sit down and add up your fuel costs in your on-road vehicles for a year? Last year we spent about $1400 between three
vehicles, a 91 Jeep (no winter driving) plus an 02 Dodge Caravan and an 07 Honda Civic. Keeping older drivers almost makes
the fuel costs seem insignificant. Only about 12,000 KM in total (7500 miles) so not a whole lot of driving. Plus, like some
say here, can't do much about it but you can lessen it by putting off trips where you can get 3 things done instead of just
one, etc. Or not make the trip at all in some cases, and obviously a more fuel efficient ride. Tough though if you need a
big pickup.

Just remember you can't take it with you.....and get one of those bumper stickers that says "I'm spending the kids' inheritance."

They had a grand opening for Key Oil here in town Just paid .99c a gallon for regular. Had to wait in line 45 mins well worth it.
Saved $30 to fill up van.

Went from $2.60 gallon to $2.75 over night her.

You got that right, Russ! Health care in this country is like most other business. Big business centered on profits.

$2.60 is a bargin here. $2.90 to 2.95 most places.

supposedly we're too close to Chicago and they have some additives for summer to curb polution. i think is was an algore deal. non-sense.

As much as rising fuel costs annoy me, I am even more annoyed to pay $2300 plus for six months of vehicle insurance. Yes, we insure six vehicles for that, but the newest is a 2013, and two are from the last century. At least the fuel means I get something for it- travel from one place to another. The insurance is likely just money down a hole.