Re: Digest for 1962to1965mopars@, issue 3327

[Bill Watson <wwatson5@xxxxxxxxx>]

The price per barrel of crude is the same no matter where you go.   The
differences at the pump are due to refining costs, taxes, fees, more taxes
and more fees.  The various European nations tax gasloine more than in North
America.  Actually, most non-North American nations do.   Here in greater
Vancouver gasoline is 5 to 7 cents a litre more than gasoline in Chilliwack,
which is about 80 kilometres east.  That extra bit is added on by the GVTA
to raise funds to cover the transit deficit, build more bridges and roads,
and expand the rapid transit system.

In the U.S. the federal government, the state governments, counties and
municipalities all add to the cost of gasoline.   Thus gasoline prices in
Seattle (King County) can be different than in Tacoma (Pierce County).

I remember the second gasoline "shortage" in 1979.   It did not affect
Canada to any great degree as fasr as supply, and actually, about 90% of the
U.S. as well  The eastern seaboard area of the U.S. was hurt, but the main
area was in  Los Angeles.  That year I took a trip from Winnipeg through
Mount Rushmore area, Salt Lake City, Reno, San Francisco to Los Anageles.
Only San Francisco had any possible gasoline shortage prior to Los Angeles,
although I had no problems.  Of course, once in LA the even/odd license
plates determined which day you could buy gasoline.

Leaving LA, I lined up at a gas station for over half an hour to get about
10 gallons of gas - enough to get beyond Bakersfield.  Once beyond that
point, no problems for gasoline supply.  The trip through Vegas, Colorado
and back into Manitoba was uneventful for gasoline - just had some explainng
as to why my 1978 Monaco took regular fuel and had no catalytic converter.
Fortunately I had found a broadcast sheet under the back seat before I left
Winnipeg and could show the car had the N38 option - non-catalytic converter
exhaust system.

Canada has known crude oil reserves of about 5.4 billion barrels.  The oil
sands are in addition to that.   There may be more oil out there, but until
it is actually discovered, it is all wishful thinking.  And as it takes a
few hundred million years to convert vegetation into crude oil,  I am not
expecting any newly produced oil to appear anytime soon.  And the less
vegetation the earth produces, the less oil that may be produced.  The era
our present oil deposits were created was a warm, moist period in earth's
history with lush vegeatation.  Which is also how massive dinosaurs could
survive.   Virtually no oil reserves would be found from any of the ice
ages, naturally.

Bill
Vancouver, BC



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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:33:46 -0500 (EST)
From: "Daniel J. Stern" <225@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: canada gas



On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Verna Verrier wrote:

> There is no justification for the cost of our fuel today.

You're right -- we in North America are paying about 20% to 50% of what
they pay in every other civilised country in the world.


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