CD Howe was cited the other day to prove that gas prices in Vancouver are entirely due to pipeline capacity, that it's just a myth that there is collusion in the industry.
....but they don't explain why the gas prices drop as soon as you leave Vancouver itself. The study just doesn't look at relative pricing as you go up the #1 or the #5, further away from the big market, but not from the pipeline issue.
So I'm kind of suspicious of CD Howe for some time to come.
Content-blocked, but I’ll take your word for it. There is some intuitive correctness to it - I’d wondered for years how such a thing could be allowed to go on.
There's a TransLink tax of 18.5 c/L. Vancouver Sun: "This transit tax covers Metro Vancouver north to Lions Bay, west including Bowen Island, south to the U.S.-Canada border, and east including Langley, Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows."
CD Howe was cited the other day to prove that gas prices in Vancouver are entirely due to pipeline capacity, that it's just a myth that there is collusion in the industry.
https://www.cdhowe.org/sites/default/files/2024-08/E-Brief_357_v2.pdf
....but they don't explain why the gas prices drop as soon as you leave Vancouver itself. The study just doesn't look at relative pricing as you go up the #1 or the #5, further away from the big market, but not from the pipeline issue.
So I'm kind of suspicious of CD Howe for some time to come.
I actually think that study (by Kent Fellows) holds up https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/e3ld5y/economists_analysis_of_gas_price_gouging_in/
Content-blocked, but I’ll take your word for it. There is some intuitive correctness to it - I’d wondered for years how such a thing could be allowed to go on.
There's a TransLink tax of 18.5 c/L. Vancouver Sun: "This transit tax covers Metro Vancouver north to Lions Bay, west including Bowen Island, south to the U.S.-Canada border, and east including Langley, Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows."