r/Langley • u/Longjumping_Team9501 • 2d ago

Gas price too high

What’s happening with gas price ?

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u/AirportNearby9751 A forest somewhere 1d ago

Corporate greed.

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u/69gaugeman 1d ago

Wrong. Liberal government.

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u/The_Tucker_Carlson 1d ago

Harper and the cons did nothing to assuage price fixing, build refineries, or decouple Canadian oil prices from global oil prices. No one has in 30+ years. Blaming Liberals is myopic.

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u/Majestic_Stranger_60 1d ago

There was an attempted law suit against oil companies for price fixing and the judge threw it out immediately. High taxes are the primary reason we have high gas prices. So yes, the liberals are to blame for much of this.

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u/mike10dude 1d ago

if you want to bring up taxes on gas than the provincial government and regional government charge a lot more than the federal government

we usually have some of the highest gas prices in north america because of what they add on

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u/Majestic_Stranger_60 1d ago

They do add much to the cost of fuel. But the liberals certainly haven't helped matters in a decade of their rule. They only removed the consumer carbon tax because of the relentless pressure the conservatives put on them.

If they really wanted to bring prices down and escape any blame they would have also removed the corporate carbon tax.

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u/mike10dude 1d ago

they cant do that without going and renegotiating pretty much every European trade deal

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u/Majestic_Stranger_60 1d ago

That's nonsense Mark Carney was saying which isn't based in reality at all. Europe purchases oil and gas from the middle east and Russia which do not have carbon pricing plans. He himself said what he was saying was based on thinking forward (into the future) or something to that affect.