Date:         Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:27:38 -0700
Reply-To:     don spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
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From:         don spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Baie Comeau to Labrador to Newfoundland (gas price)
Comments: cc: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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Ah yes, all that would explain why the price of gas shot up five
cents a liter on December 20th.

  I 'm in Edmonton, where the refineries are. Gas is currently 88.9/
liter.  It's five cents per liter less in most of the rural
communities an hours drive or so away and most of the time, two cents
less in Calgary, 185 miles south, which has no refineries.

We give our resources away to Big Oil. Our royalty rates are a joke.
1% on oil sands production until capital costs have been recovered.
None have been to date.

We allow BigOil to burn 1000 btu of clean burning natural gas to
produce 750 btu of dirty synthetic crude. Then we allow that, and the
jobs that go with it to be exported to Chicago for refining.

  Yep, nothing but a bunch of red neck hicks up here. At least in the
legislature.

None of them a re hip enough to drive Vanagons. (RVC) Mostly gas
guzzlers of a different sort.


On 7-Jan-07, at 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:54:34 -0500
> From:    Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Baie Comeau to Labrador to Newfoundland (gas price)
>
> Well, the price of land will factor in - capital costs of building
> a gas
> station, also property taxes (operating costs related to land
> value).  (You
> have property taxes in Canada, yes?  Do you call them rates, like the
> Brits?)  Fuel delivery costs may vary with congestion in urban
> areas.  Lots
> of factors play into gas prices.  I'm sure there are transportation
> economists who have analyzed regional variations in fuel prices, no
> doubt
> they have more complete explanations.  But this list is about
> vanagons, not
> transportation economics!
>
>
>
> Jo