Mischief Is Important

2025 Federal Election Ethical Energy The Libranos 20 Comments

If I was running the industry that serves as perennial whipping boy for Liberals, I’d screw over their manufactured “price drop at the pumps” campaign stunt, too.

20 Replies to “Mischief Is Important”

  1. If the government collects five cents per retail dollar in carbon tax, then it has to collect $.10 per dollar at the industrial production or port of Vancouver level in order to get the same amount of money. So dropping the consumer carbon tax and raising the production tax is net negative for the consumer, because every step of the process from plant gate, to finally use Gets a percentage increase to cover the cost and taxes for that stage. So a 5% reduction at retail, if transferred to production becomes seven or eight cents per dollar out of the customers pocket. The miracle in other words, is that they only drove the price up $.14 per litre in order to cut it $.14 – in reality they’re now getting about three or four cents less and my guess is we will see that get fixed soon.

  2. Yeah, as mentioned a few days ago, the consumer pays one way or another.
    If a company does not have an income from buyer/consumer, it does not pay taxes, if it does have an income it pays.

    The recent pricing is rather curious, nonetheless, they can charge what they want subject to competition, if it becomes cartel, it becomes ‘problematic’.

  3. “Look. Look at my left hand. See? Nothing in there but a carbon tax.

    Hey, hey. Don’t look at my right hand. Okay?

    Look at my left hand. See? Nothing in there. but a carbon tax.

    Abracadabra, presto change-o and…
    –
    –
    –
    Ta da! I made the carbon tax disappear!”

    1. Dizzy …. it is Newfie counting …. one, two, three and anudder and anudder and anudder

  5. So the PetroCan station closest to me went from 141.9 -> 155.9 overnight…and a Shell station about 10 minutes away that was at 152.9 yesterday is at 126.9 this AM.

    very confusing.

    1. It was like that 3 or 4 years ago. I drove from Edmonton to B. C. a lot and I saw how the price of diesel fuel yo-yoed during that time. One round trip might have cost me, say, $120 while the next one would be more than $150.

    1. Sounds like Canada is gonna need A LOT of … newcomers … to build those houses. Highly skilled tradespeople from Syria and Djibouti …

  7. Price of gas here didn’t go up, it dropped 2 cents. I’m curious what it is today.

  9. Time for an official Canadian government inquiry on price-gouging in the fuel industry…what was the exact reason for all the big price increases in the last two weeks?

    I won’t hold my breath.

  10. Gasoline averages $5.00/gal. in my CA county … as compared to $3.20/gal. National average
    https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA

    But I am so proud to be a “green” “eco” Californian. I signal my eco virtue with every fill-up … yeayyyyy me. Gawwwwd GET ME OUT OF HERE.

    1. Works out to C$1.899/litre for California
      National average C$1.299/litre.
      Last week, Costco in Kalispell was $2.999/USG or C$1.139/litre

    2. $1.39 per litre is $5.26 per gallon… we only win out because the CDN dollar has gone to shit

  11. In Calgary
    UFA $1.669/litre
    PetroCan $1.489/litre to $1.559/litre depending on location
    Costco 1.299/litre, (on Tsutina )1.249/litre)

    Everyone else in the $1.459 to $1.559/litre range

  13. You can bounce and juggle the numbers till hell freezes over but the bottom line is that the government, no matter which party is in power, has been and will continue to pick your pocket. That is the sad and unavoidable truth in a socialist/communist (supply management) run so-called democracy. This country is hooped, as in toast, or done like a dog’s dinner. There is no way to return Canada to the thriving nation it was in the Fifties and Sixties. Successive Liberal governments and their socialist/communist manifesto have gutted this country every time they are in power and weak Conservative governments are equally to blame for not having the intestinal fortitude to counter the manifesto because they liked the perks that came from the taxes. I am far worse off than I was ten years ago when Twinkle Socks introduced ‘Sunny Days’. I’ve worked and paid taxes for 60 years and voted in every election in the those years and no-where on a ballot was I ever asked if I wanted to increase taxes, increase immigration, increase foreign aid, increase crime, etc., on the other hand I was never asked to reduce my access to health care, reduce education levels, and reduce my over-all standard of living, and yet that is where we are today. As Maggie Thatcher once foretold we are running not out of other peoples money we are running out of our own and we, as a nation, are too stupid to understand that.

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