Canadfian fuel prices

09 August 2011, 00:49

vapodog

quote:
Originally posted by calgarychef1:
I suppose it's interesting to know but what difference does it really make? I mean you still have to buy the stuff...I don't even look anymore just fill the tank and call the banker......

It makes a lot of difference.....I'm coming from the USA and can choose to fill tanks in International Falls or drive across the border to fill.....same for the return trip....I can buy just enough to get me to the Falls and fill on the US side or fill prior to leaving Canada.

Also for the boat....I can have it filled prior to leaving the USA or fill it in Canada...

This can make a difference of $100 for me!

09 August 2011, 00:53

vapodog

quote:
Originally posted by SCHALL53:
I just went online and checked. $127.9 Kenora, Ontario, Canada.

Thanks....at current exchange (.98/ USD) this makes gas (on a equivalent basis) about $4.94 USD per US gallon.

And I thought it was high here....

There actually was a time it was less in Canada.....but a long time ago!

09 August 2011, 07:04

Watson Lake

5.36
a gallon Here

09 August 2011, 08:12

vapodog

quote:
Originally posted by Watson Lake:
5.36
a gallon Here

and you folks are an oil exporting country.....ever wonder about that?

09 August 2011, 14:36

calgarychef1

Yea we do wonder about that. We have a small population and a big country to try and run taxes aren't fun but they are necessry.

10 August 2011, 00:13

p dog shooter

We always fillup in the Falls and try to buy only the min about of gas in Canada. We go up a few of times a year.

10 August 2011, 02:17

Jim Kobe

Vapo:

I just got back from a fly-in out of Minaki, 30 mi north of Kenora. I drive a Tahoe and from MSP we filled in Internationa Falls, went all the way to Minaki and back to Cloquet before we filled up. Minaki is about 30 miles north of Kenora.

Earlier on a m'cyle trip to the west coast and up to Banff last month we paid over $5 gal in BC and AB

10 August 2011, 03:00

Dewey

It seems to me that these Yanks coming here to catch our fish, shoot our game and enjoy our relatively large amount of unspoiled true wilderness are not contributing to Canada's economy as they buy their gas,etc. in the USA.

This has been a major issue in many parts of BC, especially the Kootenays, where Yanks like to trailer boats up to fish for the largest wild Rainbow Trout on earth, in Kootenay Lake. I see no real benefit to we Canadians by allowing this as our daily limits of edible fish are cut to the absolute minimum so that the "trophy" fishing will continue and, yet, we do not receive much in respect of gas sales, groceries, tackle and so forth from the foreigners who are using our resource for a pittance of a licence fee.

I favour a major reorganization of the regulations concerning hunting, fishing and all other outdoor recreations in BC and a total ban on anyone except a BC resident-Canadian citizen fishing Kootenay Lake, the Dean River and Hakai Pass among other justly famed fishing venues.

A provincial election is coming soon and I suspect that some major changes to BC resource management-allocations will follow. It is time that we made serious money from our resources or kept them for ourselves.

10 August 2011, 06:28

Boxhead

Having lived in Calgary for five years I found everything more expensive there than in the US. This is why so many of my friends and neighbors there headed south so often to shop. The Walmart in Ponderay Idaho is always loaded with Canadian license plates.

10 August 2011, 07:46

TJAY

Just checked online.
3.89 gal. I Falls

127.9 L. Fort Frances

10 August 2011, 14:59

calgarychef1

Hell, when I go to the States I always fill up before coming home. Who wouldn't be interested in spending less money?

10 August 2011, 16:36

p dog shooter

Dewey thats why most canadians I know travel south to shop when they get the chance.

They are always asking for us to buy them stuff and bring it up with us.

10 August 2011, 21:03

calgarychef1

Over the years I've noticed the prices of most stuff getting closer to even. The price of booze and fuel is definately getting closer even with the closeness of your dollar value. There's a LOT less cross border shopping done by Canadians lately.

Some day the Americans will probably be coming to Canada for deals hammering

11 August 2011, 01:28

Alberta Canuck

Most American visitors aren't in a position to notice this, but Alberta salaries are MUCH higher for the same work, than American salaries...and the benefits are better...at least at the "professional" jobs.

That's one reason so many Americans lived a few years in Canada...they recieved big bucks to come here, whether from a U.S. based employer or a Canadian one.

When I elected to move back to the 'States from Calgary, I had to take a more than 70% pay cut to do so, and sacrifice a pension which would have paid me 105% per year of my salary (average salary per year for my last three years of work).

12 August 2011, 08:03

sprayandpray

quote:
Originally posted by calgarychef1:
Over the years I've noticed the prices of most stuff getting closer to even. The price of booze and fuel is definately getting closer even with the closeness of your dollar value. There's a LOT less cross border shopping done by Canadians lately.

Some day the Americans will probably be coming to Canada for deals

Where I live, the exact opposite is true. The price of most everything, especially booze, is far cheaper in the US.
I always give the US Customs agent a strange look when he asks if I have any alcohol or tobacco.

quote:
Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:
Most American visitors aren't in a position to notice this, but Alberta salaries are MUCH higher for the same work, than American salaries...and the benefits are better...at least at the "professional" jobs.

That's one reason so many Americans lived a few years in Canada...they recieved big bucks to come here, whether from a U.S. based employer or a Canadian one.

When I elected to move back to the 'States from Calgary, I had to take a more than 70% pay cut to do so, and sacrifice a pension which would have paid me 105% per year of my salary (average salary per year for my last three years of work).

You forgot to mention that the cost of living is exponentially higher in Alberta than most places in the US as well, hence the high salaries.

12 August 2011, 09:37

Alberta Canuck

Actually I didn't need to mention it. Everyone from the U.S. was complaining about high prices in Alberta, and I was simply saying, yes, but they aren't particularly high as a % of spendable income for Albertans...they are paid more in salaries, so CAN pay more for their goods without suffering sticker shock.

12 August 2011, 23:44

sjr

And we have free medical in Canada < what a joke> but you Americas have Obama a even bigger joke !!!!

13 August 2011, 06:21

Boxhead

While I was fortunate in that my company payed fully my Canadian taxes while I lived/worked there I did sign the returns and was appalled at what was owed. Yes the gross pay may be higher (which is very questioable in my compay's case) but I question that the net is. Then throw in GST and any provincial tax that may apply. Nope.

13 August 2011, 06:42

Alberta Canuck

Don't worry. You'll be paying GST and other new taxes soon enough.

When S&P downgraded Canada's credit rating to AA+ because Canada's national debt was 35% of its annual GNP, Canada installed the GST to help get its debt paid down. THEY are now back at a AAA rating, though it took 10 years to get their national debt/GNP ratio low enough to accomplish that.

Tbe U.S. national debt is now at about 75% of its annual GNP! What do you think the U.S. will have to do to get its debt/GNP ratio down enough to regain a AAA credit rating?

Oh, and one of the reasons the national income tax looks so high in Canada is that it INCLUDES the provincial income and school taxes, rather than being in addition to them, and Alberta has no provincial sales tax.

13 August 2011, 07:57

sprayandpray

quote:
Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:
Don't worry. You'll be paying GST and other new taxes soon enough.

When S& P dowgraded Canada's credit rating to AA+ because Canada's national debt was 35 % of its annual GNP, Canada installed the GSP to help get its debt paid down. THEY are now back at a AAA rating, though it took 10 years to get their national debt/GNP ratio low enough to accomplish that.

Tbe U.S. national debt is now at about 75% of its annual GNP! What do you think the U.S. will have to do to get its debt/GNP ratio down enough to regain a AAA credit rating?

Oh, and one of the reasons the national income tax looks so high in Canada is that it INCLUDES the provincial income and school taxes, rather than being in addition to them.

So if things were oh so great in Alberta, why'd you move to the US?

13 August 2011, 08:55

Alberta Canuck

quote:
Originally posted by sprayandpray:
quote:
Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:
Don't worry. You'll be paying GST and other new taxes soon enough.

When S&P downgraded Canada's credit rating to AA+ because Canada's national debt was 35% of its annual GNP, Canada installed the GST to help get its debt paid down. THEY are now back at a AAA rating, though it took 10 years to get their national debt/GNP ratio low enough to accomplish that.

Tbe U.S. national debt is now at about 75% of its annual GNP! What do you think the U.S. will have to do to get its debt/GNP ratio down enough to regain a AAA credit rating?

Oh, and one of the reasons the national income tax looks so high in Canada is that it INCLUDES the provincial income and school taxes, rather than being in addition to them. And Alberta has no provincial sales tax.

So if things were oh so great in Alberta, why'd you move to the US?

Because my wife likes the warm weather in the Scottsdale area. And, as I was born here in the desert east of Phoenix before Scottsdale even existed, it was just a return home anyway. Believe me if the weather in Alberta didn't include 9 months or more of what Americans consider winter every year, I'd still be there.

Don't get me wrong, I like the U.S. But I also have seen a lot more of the world than the U.S. There are other places I like just as well or better. New Zealand would be my very first choice if I could live anywhere. Weather to die for, fabulous fishing, great hunting, and still only 4.4 million people (now) in the whole country! I was going to buy an island in the middle of Lake Rotorura in the 1970s, but at that time the NZ national government wouldn't let anyone immigrate there who was over 40 years old...and I had just turned 41.

And I try not to bad-mouth ANY nation that I don't really know or understand...

22 August 2011, 17:20

vapodog

Just returned from a week of fishing on Red Lake in Ontario.....paid just under $7.00 A a gallon for boat gas.....and that's not mixed gas!

22 August 2011, 19:50

vapodog

quote:
Originally posted by Dewey:
It seems to me that these Yanks coming here to catch our fish, shoot our game and enjoy our relatively large amount of unspoiled true wilderness are not contributing to Canada's economy as they buy their gas,etc. in the USA.

This has been a major issue in many parts of BC, especially the Kootenays, where Yanks like to trailer boats up to fish for the largest wild Rainbow Trout on earth, in Kootenay Lake. I see no real benefit to we Canadians by allowing this as our daily limits of edible fish are cut to the absolute minimum so that the "trophy" fishing will continue and, yet, we do not receive much in respect of gas sales, groceries, tackle and so forth from the foreigners who are using our resource for a pittance of a licence fee.

I favour a major reorganization of the regulations concerning hunting, fishing and all other outdoor recreations in BC and a total ban on anyone except a BC resident-Canadian citizen fishing Kootenay Lake, the Dean River and Hakai Pass among other justly famed fishing venues.

A provincial election is coming soon and I suspect that some major changes to BC resource management-allocations will follow. It is time that we made serious money from our resources or kept them for ourselves.

P&M all you want but don't forget who pays for your defense....it took you guys six months to outfit three boats to assist in Desert Storm....I was in Nova Scotia at the time and saw your defense team in action!

If the US wanted Canada all we need to do is send the Montana National guard!