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Average fuel price dropped 1.8 cents in past week: Survey
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Canwest News Service -- OTTAWA - The average price of regular gasoline in Canada fell 1.8 cents over the last week to $1.271 a litre, according to numbers compiled by a petroleum-industry research firm and released Tuesday.

MJ Ervin & Associates' weekly survey of 60 communities showed the biggest drop and increase over the week were both in Quebec. The average price in Montreal fell 10.7 cents to $1.287 a litre, while the going rate in Trois-Rivieres rose 11.1 cents to $1.396.

The most expensive and cheapest locations in the country remained the same as they've been for the past few weeks. Kingston, Ont., had the lowest average of $1.212 a litre, up 2.8 cents from a week earlier. Labrador City, N.L., had the most expensive gasoline at $1.422, the same as last week.


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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Canwest News Service -- OTTAWA - The average price of regular gasoline in Canada fell 1.8 cents over the last week to $1.271 a litre, according to numbers compiled by a petroleum-industry research firm and released Tuesday.

MJ Ervin & Associates' weekly survey of 60 communities showed the biggest drop and increase over the week were both in Quebec. The average price in Montreal fell 10.7 cents to $1.287 a litre, while the going rate in Trois-Rivieres rose 11.1 cents to $1.396.

The most expensive and cheapest locations in the country remained the same as they've been for the past few weeks. Kingston, Ont., had the lowest average of $1.212 a litre, up 2.8 cents from a week earlier. Labrador City, N.L., had the most expensive gasoline at $1.422, the same as last week.

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POLELANE
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way up here today; good for somebody out there somewhere
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Wow, cheaper gas. I knew it would fall...lol.
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For now, I just hope it will stay low!

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I'm not seeing this. All I see is another 20 cent jump in prices at the stations.
nickheart
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Man, I need to get my passport so I can drive up to Canada to fill up ^_^

Nevermind the conversion is 1.287$/liter * 3.8liters/gal = 4.89$/gal (and since the US dollar has fallen, we don't have to convert canadian dollars to american anymore.

Is it February 09 yet?...
ramshot412
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Message Posted: 5/22/2008 7:52:01 AM  Ignore ramshot412 Report Abuse
1.8 cents down last week, 3.6 cents up this week....One step forward two steps back.
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I haven't seen an average price drop of any kind!!!!!
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Message Posted: 5/22/2008 7:48:59 AM  Ignore _angel35_ Report Abuse
WHERE did it drop? Maybe I should go there...certainly no where near *I* am - it has gone up steadily and daily daily...is now 3.99 at minimum and most places over 4$/gal everywhere near me for regular at the pumps!
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it will spend more time going up,when it goes down penny at a time,up 20-30 cents!!!
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???

Proof that you can make statistics say anything you want.
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This article is in Canada, where they don,t have a Memorial Day holiday weekend coming up.
It has made two jumps of ten to twenty cents around here in the last two weeks.
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That's a drop!! My local prices just went up to 1.27+. They must be talking about Quebec or New Brunswick.
maggiemaen
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It's not dropping here! It just went up 15 cents overnight again!
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Better hurry out and buy your hummer.
Oh yes, it is raining. Somewhere.
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There isn't a strict correlation between prices in US and Canada, they are affected by different factors.
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Where? Went up 7 cents here overnight.
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how about some of that here?
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IT'S UP TO $3.95 IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY!!! THIS IS CRAZY!
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That was last week......
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Good for Canada
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Yesterday it may have dropped CDN$0.018 but today in California it went up... WAY UP! Regular unleaded gasoline: $3.91, $4.12, $3.93, $3.97, $3.95, $3.99, $4.11 along one street in town... up about 10 cents/gallon average! YEOW!
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They went up 14 cents here yesterday!
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Oh Canada!
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Dropped??? Where???? It went UP 10 cents in the last two days here!
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Fuel price dropped? What does that mean?
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It only lasted a second..
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not here in calif...sorry canada
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We didn't see it here in ??LaLa?? land either.. prices here have been on the rise.
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Please Read John Hofmeister, who is the CEO of Shell Oil Company in front of Congress. He spells out the true reason for our oil problems.

HOFMEISTER: In the United States, access to our own oil and gas resources has been limited for the last 30 years, prohibiting companies such as Shell from exploring and developing resources for the benefit of the American people. It is not a free market. According to the Department of the Interior, 62% of all on-shore federal lands are off limits to oil and gas developments, with restrictions applying to 92% of all federal lands. The Argonne National Laboratory did a report in 2004 that identified 40 specific federal policy areas that halt, limit, delay, or restrict natural gas projects. The problem of access can be solved in this country by the same government that has prohibited it. Congress could have chose to lift some or all of the current restrictions on exploration and production of oil and gas. Congress could provide national policy to reverse the persistent decline of domestically secure natural resource development.

There is simply no way to keep up -- let alone get ahead of demand -- except by producing more oil and building more refining capacity. That's because of the makeup of the barrel of crude. Only a third to a half of a barrel of crude oil can be used to make these products. We can't use more than half of a barrel of oil to make diesel and aviation fuel. To meet this demand we need more capacity. So we need policies that enable both more crude supply and more refining. Higher taxes would only serve to diminish the expansion capacity of this critical capital investment. I urge you on behalf of American consumers to resist such punitive policies.

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Not here the price went up $.25 since Monday!!!!
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went up about 4 to 5 cents today
ladyjj
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Good for them not so good for us it is on the rise and no signs of stopping!
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Wichita, KS rose again . . . didn't drop!
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WE HAVE GONE UP, NO DROPS HERE IN OREGON!
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Things are not looking good here in the States. I'm going to start looking for a nice 10-speed.
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didnt see a drop here. saw it rise again
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Tampa prices jumped another 4 cents today, Murphy on Gunn Hwy went from 365 to 375
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Well good for Canada, I wouldn't hold my breath, for lower prices.
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Hope it starts dropping here.
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WOW!
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big deal
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This doesn't have much bearing on our prices.
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Now I have to decide what to do with the .52 cents I saved.
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lleddiri; You can call it "BS' if you wish but it is fact here.
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What am I to do now with my big savings?
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Guess it's time to move to Canada!! Gas prices here just keep going up.
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Funny... I have not seen my average price drop more than a penny around here since mid February. Its just been up, up, up nearly every day since then.
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What cheap gas?? I haven't seen a price drop in ages.
lleddirj
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What BS, it went up 20 cents last night alone.
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right local prices went up 13 cents/gal yesterday
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