Friday gas rant blogging price drop · Friday May 18, 2007 by colin newell
Gas prices in Victoria B.C. Canada
The Jubilee Esso full-serve at 1669 Fort Street in Victoria dropped its price from 129.9 to 125.9 overnight…
obviously in response to the unending pressure that this blog and others were placing on their business.
Yea. Right.
Still, it is a condescending and pathetic tip of the gas cap to consumers… I mean, they are ripping us off to the tune of about 30 cents a litre.
What can you do? How about this:
-Buy nothing from the gas station other than gas. No slushies. No potato chips. No windshield washer fluid. No candy bars. Nothing.
-Buy no more than 20 dollars worth of gas and pay in pennies and small change.
-Buy $20 of gas and park next to the air filling station… and spend a 1/2 hour filling your tires… or cleaning your car.
-Walk to your nearest gas station and place a picket on the sidewalk. Seriously. Gather your friends together. Peaceful protest is a powerful thing.
Google photo above. That was too easy
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Gas prices in Victoria - 5 · Thursday May 17, 2007 by colin newell
In a remarkable turn of events, I have just been mailed a list of future gas prices in the Victoria area.
This is truely incredible. It appears to have come from an industry insider… an obviously confidential document… describing sceduled price increases for the Victoria area right down to the decimal point…
Wow. Check this out readers:
May 25, 2007 – 131.5 / litre regular
May 31, 2007 – 134.9 / litre regular
June 7, 2007 – 136.9 / litre regular
June 21, 2007 – 142.5 / litre regular
Geepers. I could go on… but it would not be in my best interest to reveal more… this document uncovers what the gas prices in Victoria will be through the summer right into September.
I would be putting my life in danger by telling you what the gas price will be in the first week of September.
On a more serious note… CAA insiders claim that these all too obvious pre-long-weekend gas price increases are more than a little suspicious.
Cathy Hay, senior gasoline market analyst at MJ Ervin and Associates in Calgary, said most gasoline markets are pretty close to peak prices and the notion that gas prices jump prior to a long weekend is an urban myth.
An urban myth huh? Right..
Right…
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Gas price blues · Wednesday May 16, 2007 by colin newell
Gas Prices in Victoria B.C. Canada
So. They are at it again.
Lemme see. What did we see on the way home from work:
$.129.5 at the Oak Bay Junction Esso station
And via one of the many gas price monitoring websites…
$1.36.5 in Ganges, Salt Spring Island
$1.07.5 in Dawson Creek
That is about 30 cents on every litre of gas purchased in Victoria that is being stolen from you by the gas station leeches.
Your provincial and federal governments are looking the other way because they are reaping a huge benefit from the taxes collected.
So in some ways, you are being robbed twice. Maybe more.
It is patently obvious that all the gas stations in Victoria B.C. Canada are in collusion to fix prices.
The gas industry in Canada reported over 100 billion in profit last year. That is money taken from you, the consumer.
And the rip-off continues. And will continue.
It is, afterall… government sanctioned.
Meantime the government of British Columbia is about to vote themselves a 29% raise…
and services for women and children get slashed.
In an economy that is truely booming with virtually no unemployment, why do I feel like we are living in a nightmare?
What do you think?
Chase us, Tom Cruise, Chase us · Monday May 14, 2007 by colin newell
John Sweeney, a BBC reporter who worked on a Scientology documentary that’s shortly to air, describes the way that the cult psy-opsed him, following him around (even at his wedding!) and calling on his family members and neighbors (I have a friend who did a Master’s thesis on the “church” and got inept, threatening phone calls at 2AM for years afterward). Eventually, Sweeney “snapped” on camera and shouted at a Scientology leader he was interviewing.
Scientologists recorded the outburst and then complained that Sweeney had made a “terrorist death threat.” Oh, puh-leeze. If there’s anything worse than being a sinister, greedy, brain-washing cult, it’s being a crybaby sinister, greedy brainwashing cult.
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More goofy Scientology factoids
I lived in a house for about 15 years and while there I got mis-delivered mail from a member of Scientology… of course I had to open that mail. It was my civic duty.
What blew me away was the catalog of stuff you had to buy to move up the Scientology rangs; cassettes, books and what-have-you…
Scientology is very much as pay as you go religion – full members could easily pay over 100,000 dollars for full enlightenment.
Yea. I guess I shouldn’t have been opening other peoples mail, huh?
That should be left to the FBI and CIA.
