Fuel prices in BC

[emuller1]

Originally Posted by dennis45

It's the salt air. Get too close to the ocean and it dumbs the senses.

Add to that pot legalization (which was never an issue in BC) and you have a terrible mind numbing combination

[RoadDogYVR]

I haul fuel for a living in the Lower Mainland of BC. Both Tanker Truck Loading Rack (TTLR) facilities I load from are based in Burnaby, BC.

One TTLR is connected to a refinery, one is solely a "holding" stage for finished product before loading into tanker trucks.

Some of the fuel comes through the pipeline, some is sourced from the US and some diesel is actually brought by tanker back to Canada refined from Asia. Not all US-sourced fuel comes from Alberta. The heavy nature of Alberta Oil Sands originated base product is something some refineries aren't interested in, preferring to use light crude.

[RoadDogYVR]

Originally Posted by 96 Wideglide

Build refineries, give Canadians a break on fuel prices !!!

A bunch of them along the Yellowhead Highway in "Northern" Alberta that were shuttered years ago by the right wing government of the day but lots of folks in Alberta like to blame everything on the left.

I've always advocated a common sense approach - open up our refineries again to serve a domestic market, providing good paying skilled and semi-skilled jobs to Canadians, and stop acting like an 19th century colony supplying raw materials for manufacturing elsewhere to be bought back at elevated prices.

The Big Oil companies in Canada see the writing on the wall - they are divesting themselves of the retail side of the business and in at least one case have sold off the refinery business as well. I'm not saying we'll be fossil fuel free in the next couple of years but Big Oil plays the Long Game and they are moving away from gas and diesel in the retail sector.