VICTORIA – Premier John Horgan has asked the independent B.C. Utilities Commission to investigate the high price of gasoline in Metro Vancouver, as he seeks to dampen criticism government taxes are to blame for rising costs.
Horgan has in turn blamed gas companies for gouging consumers, and asked his deputy minister, Don Wright, to investigate what if anything the province can do in response. “Everyone benefits if we have a common set of facts that you can report on with confidence it’s not spin. Horgan also revealed Tuesday that he spoke with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and asked him to consider reducing the amount of diluted bitumen travelling from Alberta to Burnaby in the federally owned Trans Mountain pipeline so that more refined gasoline could be shipped to Vancouver.“I laid out for him my concerns about the inordinate spike about retail gas prices in British Columbia that were not connected to any policy decisions, it just seemed to be in my opinion gouging.
The gas prices here in Vancouver are absolutely outrageous! I was paying $1.40/L for Premium in Ontario! Sadly, Dictator JustinTrudeau has forced all provinces to bend over and take his carbon tax! We need PPC or Conservative to clean up the mess here like fordnation did in ON!
He has a point. When the 'great recession' hit a few years back and the price of oil tanked. The price of gasoline remained $1.20/L in Metro Vancouver but went down everywhere else in Canada cdnpoli bcpoli vanpoli