Gasoline gets ever pricier
Gas is reaching $1.50 a litre around town this long weekend.
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Jack 13:47 on 2012/04/06 Permalink
Good
Kate 14:12 on 2012/04/06 Permalink
I’d tend to react that way too, except for the realization that when gas goes up, so does everything else.
Marc 14:14 on 2012/04/06 Permalink
Well, it is the long weekend after all.
Faiz Imam 01:58 on 2012/04/08 Permalink
It’s great in the long term, it will promote increased living and working in denser centralized areas, decrease the exurban phenomenon, decrease the depopulation of Montreal in general, and be a all round improvement for sustainability.
But the problem is in the short term, day to day, week to week, month to month. Many people’s lives are and will be disturbed and ruined.
The whole point of the green and eco-movements of the past 20 years has been to prepare and forestall for this kind of thing. for example, while this will accelerate everything the PMAD was working towards, the whole point was to insulate us from gas prices BEFORE they have a direct effect.
Kate 08:50 on 2012/04/08 Permalink
Faiz Imam, that’s a really good point.
Ian 17:55 on 2012/04/09 Permalink
When we start seeing those fuel prices reflected in our grocery bills, we’ll see how “good” that is. This kind of price-fixing only benefits the petro industry. If we’re going to continue along the all-goods-delivered-by-truck model (since we’ve abandoned rail apparently) we’re going to either have to get used to not having seasonal fruit & vegetables (like back in the 70s) or rally to see price controls on gas established by the government.