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Have something to say about gas prices? Sure, we all do. Here's your chance to voice yourself. Just leave your comments below. Leave your email address if you'd like a personal reply. Your email address won't be used for any other purpose and won't be posted. Due to the volume of mail received, we cannot respond to every email received. Public comments are screened for relevancy prior to posting. [ Add your comments | View comments | Previous months | Home ] Here's a selection of what you had to say this month!View comments from previous months
Hi All Well let's get to the facts 1. The world is run by the 6 riches’ people in the world 2. Government can’t do anything about it besides lowering the tax on the liter? I guess not. 3. Oil Company gets the tax pass to them? I don’t think so. 4. How many government cars uses premium gas instead of regular and the employees fill with premium because it not there money? Bottom line we have to put up with it Ps Forgot about ethanol you get fewer miles per gallon compare to regular gas Name: Andrew Werblinski Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 14:19:22 ET Congrats on the initiative to inform drivers on current gas prices. I feel that your website could be improved by making it more useful in the following way: 1) create an alphbetical database of ALL gas stations in the Ottawa area, sorted by company name, street name, then number; 2) add a simple form to your home page, where users can choose up to 3 or 4 stations of interest to them, based on the database; 3) the form would display: company, street, number or cross street, station id number to be used for reporting to you, price of regular gas/l, and latest time updated; 4) add cookies that would enable users to have their station choices displayed automatically every time they enter your website; 5) set up reporting of gas prices by text-messaging them to you, based on the database id number; 6) on the home page provide a guide on how to text message gas prices to you. Great service all in all. You should be given government funding as a public service. Final comment: based on comparative year/price/$ calculations, whimsical price fluctuations, unsubstantiated differences in gas/diesel prices, etc., it should be very clear to all drivers that we are just getting scammed by oil companies for all they gen suck out of the consumer and the economy. Can we set up a government lobby group that would aim to bring in gas price control? Andrew Name: adam Date: Wed, 30 April 2008 12:21:37 ET if they keep this up then the whole world will go into a recession because people wont be traveling they wont go to the stores for shopping because everyone will be trying to save gas so they can get to work or what not so its in everyones best interest to keep prices lower. its cheaper to drive places then it is sometimes for a train or plane but people wont be interested if they have to pay 600$ in gas just to go to grammas house Name: Tim Davidson Date: Wed, 30 April 2008 08:18:09 ET What is breakdown of the price per litre we pay at the pump? Specifically, how much is Provincial & Federal Tax? Here\'s your answer: http://ottawastart.blogspot.com/2008/04/ask-ottawastart-how-much-tax-do-i-pay.html Name: Andy Zabchuk Date: Tue, 29 April 2008 19:04:43 ET I was in Brockville & Napanee today and price of gasoline was 113.9. Why so much difference between them & us? Its Petro Can, Esso etc. I also noticed in Kingston that Petro Can was at 127.9 and it was 10 cents cheaper at other stations in the same area. Then on my drive back to Ottawa I hear on the radio that several petroleum companies have recorded record profits for the last quarter approx. 9 Billion. We are getting taken to the cleaners and I personally wont be going on a driving vacation this summer. Name: Damian Date: Tue, 29 April 2008 18:29:29 ET Do you know why the price of gas cost less in the United States? According to the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute, in 2007, the average price of gasoline in Canada was 101.8 cents/litre (including 32.5 cents in taxes). In comparison, the average price in the United States was 82.3 cents/litre (including 17.2 cents in taxes). "The main reason is there is less tax in the United States when compared to Canada. Excluding taxes, the average price of a litre of gasoline in Canada is very close to the prices in adjacent markets in the United States." Source: Canadian Petroleum Products Institute. Gasoline Pricing Facts and Myths. http://www.cppi.ca/Q_A_s.html Name: Rene G Date: Mon, 28 April 2008 17:46:29 ET Now I know I don't run this site and I appreciate the info it gives me but this is kind of annoying. This site is called OTTAWA GAS PRICES.COM, not Brockvillegasprices.com or Kemptvillegasprices.com or Pembrokegasprices.com. I don't know if I'm the norm for those that frequent this site but when I come here I expect to see the prices for Ottawa as in Centretown, Hull, Gatinea, Kanata, Orleans and Barrhaven. I'm not going to drive to kemptville or Brockville or Prescott to get a "DEAL" on gas. ... Come on guys, this is a no brainer and to me it's insulting to show prices in places that it makes absolutely no sense to drive to. Now in all seriousness, I can live with this, it won't kill me but really, Don't you guys think it's stupid to have a site called ottawagasprices.com and list prices from areas well outside of the ottawa area??? Name: Jean Guy Date: Sun, 27 April 2008 10:52:07 ET Just a thought, why is gas still considered a commodity when in my life it is a necessity? Would that make a difference in pricing? Does it matter that as a business person, the cost of simple delivery of product has sky rocketed due to this pricing and I cannot transfer this cost to the consumer due to market slowdown. Where does this stop? We need to act together to stop this. Anyone got any ideas? Name: Julia Gilbert Date: Sun, 27 April 2008 07:03:12 ET Recently there has been an email floating around suggesting we boycott Shell and Esso until gas prices at their stations go below the $1 mark. (create our own gas-price war). Do you know what stations in Ottawa receive their gas from Shell or Esso but aren't "Shell" stations or "Esso" stations? I think the boycott will be most effective if we target who they supply as well as their main store fronts. Name: Rick Sanschagrin Date: Fri, 25 April 2008 10:32:53 ET Just the usual comments from down east to all the maritimers that I know are in the Ottawa area. Our gas here went up from 126.3 to 133.8 overnight (Thursday to Friday) Thank god for regulated gas prices in Nova Scotia. Problem here is that unregulated we might be worse. With a monopoly of supply and an oligopoly of distribution we are between a very hard rock and an equally hard place. Further we have only one "independent" gas distributor to offer any competition. Fill up boys, we are the bell weather. Name: Blaine Date: Sun, 20 April 2008 21:35:47 ET That's not good! If Fuel price is going raise then food will raise. Will you afford pay food and mortgage? I paid much. If people can not afford pay it. The people would make war or against to Gov't? If a Busniess will go bankrupt. How can people get new job? Name: CER Date: Sun, 20 April 2008 20:31:11 ET Well if everyone actually got together and said we are not driving for 1 week and avoided driving wherever possible we could hurt their pocket books and force them to lower prices or even boycotted one company at a time hurting their profits like buy from one gas station or company but never does this happen Name: Date: Sun, 20 April 2008 17:12:38 ET Welcome to the beginning of Peak Oil. High gas prices are a sure fire indicator that the era of cheap and abundant oil is over. Don't expect prices to decline anytime soon. Infact, you might want to invest in a good bike or a new pair of sneakers, as pretty soon it just won't be feasible or possible to drive your car anymore. Decline of oil will inevitable results in the decline of many other good and services, but then we all knew it was a finite resource to begin with. Name: Raja Date: Fri, 18 April 2008 20:12:28 ET Is it fair to compare a 100-150 km radius for gas prices. The chart used to be a better indicator of the trend and at one time even good to find a gas station with lowest price. But now this is no indicator of gas price in local area and may eventually loose its importance. Hope you understand what I mean. If the community has grown we need to segregate the listing into zones and not treat it similar to temperature chart which are more homogeneous over larger areas. This does not demand major changes input strategy from visitors. But only requires to show the front page with zonal high and lows and detail values within separate page for each zone as links. Todays high and lows are from shawville and petawawa. No use for anybody who is not in 10-20 km radius of the gas stations. I live in west end ottawa and at one time used to look at the website to get a good deal. This is the worse time and the site is not that useful now. I wonder if anyone else feels the same way. Name: ig_1811 Date: Fri, 18 April 2008 14:03:15 ET While the Government's of Canada and the U.S are in bed together with the big auto companies and big oil companies. Who profits in all this ...it is not the consumer! I wonder what the secretive group of twelve think of all this? (Those are the shakers and movers that secretively get together to dictate, co-operate to regulate international finance and to which direction the economies of countries will go. This group of twelve people are usually made up of billionaires). The whole thing is a big consumer scam. Price of oil, natural gas, wheat, beef etc. are all kept high in order for big corporations and governments to keep making big profits, what is big oil doing with a $123 billion dollars in profit, keeping this for a rainy day! As long as the consumer is quite about all this, prices will spiral out of control. Personal bankruptcies will sore, then the governments and big corporations will realize…oops! I guess we got to greedy. Name: John Date: Thu, 17 April 2008 15:10:25 ET With oil companies posting record profits it's pretty clear who is gaining from the prices we're forced to pay. The average price today for a US Gallon is $3.418 converted to Liters that's $0.90/l still in USD. So we're paying $1.18cdn today about 0.28c more ?? Nice!! real Nice... Name: Rick Date: Thu, 17 April 2008 13:26:34 ET I find it funny all you people running around like headless chicks trying to save what..? 2 or 3 bucks per fillup when you've just spent that exact amount in gas looking for the cheapest stations.. lmao! PS: To that thoughtless comment from Mr. Wayne below: if the other side of the river doesn't please you then you know what to do !IF! you're smart enough.. we'll keep the nice Québécoises for ourselves thank you! ;) Name: P.Gautier Date: Thu, 17 April 2008 08:44:28 ET I think that the goverments should cut back on gas taxes when gas price reaches a certain level so as to keep prices affordable to all.The more the price of gas goes up the more money they collect!!!$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Name: David Date: Tue, 15 April 2008 15:54:45 ET I would like to add my two cents into this debate as I see a few things from a different perspective. I work in the energy industry and deal with the economics of producing oil and gas every day. From the way I see it, we have, as a society, been used to very cheap and abundant sources of energy. We have taken for granted that we our showers will always be warm, our lights will always turn on, and we will be able to drive whenever we want. The problem is, the worlds population is expanding exponentially and the global supply of uasable enrgy is not infinite. It will, no matter how much we deny it, run out eventually. Energy, especially oil, is getting harder and riskier to find and more expensive to recover. I know, I try to recover it every day. I don't have answers as to how each person is going to get their kid to daycare or drive there 6 kids to soccer practice but I do know that eventually, we are all going to have to shift our paradigm and learn to live a different way. We can fight it, we can blame the government or the "big oil" for screwing us all over, or we can try to find another way of doing things. If we all used as much energy as we use complaining about it trying to think up a better way, we might actually get somewhere. One other comment. I have seen a theme in the comments of many gas and oil articles which say that the government wants to keep gas prices high so they can roll around in the tax income. This appears true on the surface but doesn't really make sense. If gas really becomes unoffordable for average people, the fall out has much larger tax reducing implications. It slows down industry, slowes down transportation and drastically reduces the governments peice of a vibrant economy. Before you lash out about the big bad government, give the issue a bit more thought Name: mike Date: Mon, 07 April 2008 14:47:23 ET after looking at the prices for gas in Brockville and Gananoque, there is no doubt we are keeping prices high to appease across the river, otherwise Gatineau would be losing a lot of customers. Name: Date: Sun, 06 April 2008 11:29:05 ET why cant the goverment step in and put a stop on this . think of the small guy Name: David Bloom Date: Fri, 04 April 2008 09:26:27 ET Regarding the prices posted on your site from Napanee: while it is certainly informative to have these posted, you may wish to reconsider the description of its location as "Ottawa Valley". Napanee lies half way between Kingston and Belleville and is clearly not anywhere near the Ottawa Valley; perhaps the St-Lawrence River Valley? Notwithstanding this, your site is very much appreciated. Name: Rick Sanschagrin Date: Mon, 31 March 2008 16:50:13 ET View from Halifax Dartmouth NS Relatively speaking, gas still a deal in Ottawa. Our "regulated" price per litre just went down from 1.996 to just over 1.18. Has not been below 1.00 since summer 2006. And we have a refinery not 20 minutes from Halifax/Dartmouth. Name: Paul Date: Sun, 30 March 2008 19:13:45 ET Why is it that in Kanata they have the lowest prices,ie:104.2 at Sunoco stations while here in Ottawa all around and in Nepean,We're paying 108.9 and 109.9 on Merivale road.I surmise that because we are a Government town,we're getting ripped off by the gas companies.Where's the Government whatch dog? Name: Tom Purves Date: Wed, 12 March 2008 17:10:25 ET Does anyone track the price of diesel in the Ottawa area? There is significant variation in the pricing where last summer diesel was usually $.10/litre cheaper than gas where recently its about $.05/liter more expensive than regular gas. Name: scott Date: Thu, 06 March 2008 22:31:41 ET just curious, but if diesel is less refined than gasoling then why doesn't it reflect that. i mean if it is 10-20-30% less refined then so should the price. i find it hard to believe that supply and demand plays that big of a part for this fuel. if there are any answers i would love to hear tham. thanks scott. Name: mike Date: Tue, 04 March 2008 08:43:51 ET Okay, food for thought, the dollar in mid 2007 was around 70 cents compared to the US, oil was around $70 a barrel, litre of gas around 70 cents. The dollar has gone up 30% the oil has gone up 30% so logic dictates that the price of a litre of gas should remain the same. Maybe you should start lobbying you MPs and MPPs to bring in some sort of control, remember that the increases in gas prices not only affect drivers but the prices of other commodities suchs as food, or anything that is petroleum based.
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