My step father ran a service station for years and I can tell you the price does whatever head office tells you to do and price changes can occur any time of day… I see 123.9 and 125.9 around town today… It is funny how petro canada is staying at 122.9 the longest, they used to seem to go up first, but again it’s the head office directing it, the local station operator has as much control over the price as the general public
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That isn’t how the whole thing works. The fuel in the tanks underground is owned by the gas company, not the gas station. They have to adjust the price at the direction of the company. It has nothing to do with new fuel arriving or anything like that.
PG went from $119.9 to 124.9 to 129.9 over the week.
okay, fair point still find it hard it to believe that there is someone that phones every station in every town city or village, terrace different price pg different price smithers different price and so on so believe what you want we are getting screwed by our own.
Memories of my friends baling Mackenzie in the 82 recession. Tossed the keys to the house on the bank manager’s desk and drove with three kids and one in the oven to Langley in an Escort wagon towing a U-haul. Roof-racks and a carrier, mattresses roped on top of the carrier box…
I can fit an ATV in the box of my mini truck. Not that I need to, it pretty much IS one.
This has been discussed before:
[quote=“MiG”]Most gasoline retailers have zero control over their prices.
Their either sell on consignment or sell on a contract that bases their retail prices on a stadard rack price set by the refinery.
Sometimes you’ll notice that all the gas stations in one region (ie: in Rupert) have the exact same price. You’ll also notice that they all seem to change their prices at the same time. You can safely conclude that they all buy their gas from, or sell on consignment for, the same wholesaler or refinery.
ie: there’s no competition at the wholesale and refinery level. It has nothing to do with retail – they don’t get to set their prices.
Now some enterprising retailers will “discount” gas – ie: Shell in Terrace will give you back 3.5cents per litre. So ask yourself why they don’t just lower their prices by 3.5cents? They don’t get to set their own prices – it’s set by the refinery or wholesaler.
There’s no economic reason for price to be more expensive in Rupert than Terrace, other than it is, and since there’s no competition, what are you going to do about it?
Only when you get competition at the wholesale and refinery level can you have lower prices. That’s what happened in Ontario a little while back – it was actually cheaper to import gas from the UK than it was to buy it from the refinery down the road. The result was that retailers could buy from more than one wholesaler, and there was a price war.
So when you see places in BC that have different prices at different stations, it’s safe to conclude that it’s a place that isn’t “controlled” by just one wholesaler or refinery.
Bottom line – don’t blame the guy who owns the station.[/quote]
Anyway, be happy Rupert is not Fort Nelson. They pay 20 cents/L more than the rest of BC outside Greater Vancouver.
give me the date you got that,hings have changed i remember when it was like that, not any more body. God bless and good night welcome to communist canada.
The increase is a result of stock traders worried about Iran. A group of people I have no kind words for.
I’ve seen the price of a gallon go up 30 cents in 3 days. Cheapest locally is now $3.98/gal.
Electric cars are looking pretty good.
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134.9 at chevron
No back down to 1.25 no one else followed
They were up to $1.35 yesterday afternoon but everyone else was at $1.25 . Go figure !!
Oh in the middle of the day too.
Chevron in Vanderhoof and one in PG up to $134.9 today, no one following the lead.
Chevron’s always the first to increase, the last to decrease. Always has been.
Reports of Montreal stations hiking prices 14c a litre overnight
Drove across bc 3 days ago. Prices are about the same everywhere except kamloops/Williams lake which were 1.22/1.24
The Fort and Hooterville now up to $128.9
i am living in victoria now
and people complaining about the price of gas in prince rupert make me laugh
the price of gas is constantly changing
one day some gas stations had FOUR different prices of fuel in ONE day
the price goes down 1 or 2 cents a litre per day, then about a week 10 days later it makes massive jumps
on feb 24th the gas was 118.9/litre, the next afternoon it was 139.9/litre
and now it is down to 123.9/litre
prices change, just be thankful your not living in vancouver or victoria were the gas price are usually higher then rupert
6TH AVE PETRO CAN SIGN 1.39.9 FOR REGULAR! Still $1.29.9 at 7-11 as of 10:00 PM!
Did someone write a message on the Saudi Facebook page that we’re bring democracy or something? Mid-grade must be like $1.55 or somethin!
I swear I saw Chevron at 1.39 on sunday before it jumped back down to 125.9… this is so disgusting 
Went up here Monday to $132.9 then another cent Tues. morning.
Amazing how the price can go up on gas already in the tank.
Fort & PG now $1.33.9