Stop in for a cup of coffee
Uhhhh…uhuhuhuhuhuh…huhuhuhuhuh…you said, "passed gas". Huhuhuhuhuhuh.
$2.099 over here this morning. That's $6.203 in US Dollars per US gallon.
What in the actual **** is going on?
1. Russia's shіtsmear dictator-for-life is bombing Ukraine into bloody dust.
2. Oil companies are profiteering (again/still).
Talk about taking advantage of a crisis.
When the price of crude goes up, gas prices jump up immediately because "Well, the price of crude has gone up, so we have no choice"…but when the price of crude goes down, gas prices stay up and stay up and stay up and maybe eventually drop by a cent or two because "Well, yeah, the price of crude dropped, but we still have all that high-priced crude we bought before, so we have no choice".
Before metrication, Canada used the Imperial Gallon, 4.125 litres (the US Gallon is 3.785 litres). The
one sturdy argument against Canada adopting the Metric System in the '70s was that it would make gas price gouging easier, and it has. That's because the litre is smaller than the gallon so any given price looks smaller on the sign; this gave oil companies a lot of room to increase prices without popular revolt, because people mostly react to the number on the sign (at least until it comes time to pay for the fill-up).
It also made every price
increase look way smaller. Suppose a litre of gas is $1.915 on Monday, and it rises 3.5% on Tuesday: the sign reads $1.982. Pfft, that's less than 7¢, minor fluctuation, whatever, not worth bitching about. Yeah? Now let's put it in Imperial Gallons: $7.899 on Monday; $8.175 on Tuesday. That's almost 28¢, more than a quarter of a dollar overnight.
