Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 00:42:36 -0500
Reply-To: Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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From: Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject: Re: Baie Comeau to Labrador to Newfoundland
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Hi Joy,
Gas in Toronto is currently selling at less than $.85 per liter. I
saw gas last night for $.74/L and this afternoon for $.82/L. $.82CDN/
L works out to 2.62US/USgallon.
Out west in Vancouver it was $1.09/L when I was there on Wednesday.
The further you are from a refinery, the more expensive it will be.
The price at stations in the Outer Banks of NC while we we there on
vacation the week after Easter 2006 were higher than any I've EVER
paid in Canada.
The cross-border gas price differential is now less than a third of
what it was five years ago . I started travelling to EveryBus in
2001. At that time the valuable US$ made gas very expensive in
Canada, because oil is sold internationally priced in US$/barrel. I
could check my logbook, but IIRC Canadian fuel was something like
half again as expensive. Now that margin is down closer to a mere 10%.
YMMV. There's really no telling what the price will be come June, the
price of fuel is far too heavily dependent on supply, demand, and the
vagaries of world politics to forecast that far ahead accurately.
Happy Trails,
Greg Potts
1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato
www.pottsfamily.ca
On 6-Jan-07, at 10:49 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:
> Canada is not cheap! I just got an off-line email from David Etter
> saying
> when he was up in those parts a few years ago gas was (converting)
> around
> $US 3.75-4.25 per gallon. I was paying less last summer in
> Newfoundland,
> but Labrador is more remote.
>
>
> :::
> :::Also, other enticements to drive east around to St John's NFLD
> include:
> :::1) Seabreeze Park near
> :::Twillingate where the #1 voted 2007 vanagon calendar photo was
> taken,
> :::and 2) a quick trip to
> :::France!!!! from the Burin Penn.
>
> And expensive. That ferry is $CA 97, no vans allowed. So if you
> go for
> overnight you need to pay for lodging too. (I paid $CA 50 for a
> nice B&B
> close to the ferry, brought my bicycle and had a good time riding
> around the
> island of St. Pierre.) I used to live in (mainland) France, so I
> definitely
> wanted to check out St. Pierre et Miquelon, but I don't think it
> would be
> worth doing again.
>
> On the other hand, I met some delightful folks in the town of Burin
> while in
> that neck of the woods.
>
> But then, everyone I met in Newfoundland was delightful.
>
> Oh, and the reason why I want to be I St. John's by the end of July
> is to go
> to the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival, which was a
> wonderful and
> enthusiastic event last summer.
>
>
> :::
> :::Soon we'll get the new camping guide to Quebec, I'd suggest that
> you
> :::might/should contact the
> :::Quebec Westfalia club to find the "best" campground near Baie
> Comeau.
> :::There seem to be several
> :::near-by: http://www.campingquebec.com/cdcq/en/region_17.shtml
> m2cw
>
> From my experience, in that neck of the woods there's no reason
> ever to pay
> for campgrounds!
>
> But if there's someone in the Quebec Westfalia club who can post
> some of
> this info to their mailing list, that would be great!
>
>
>
> Joy
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