Price fixing / collusion

[Albacor]

Somebody can tell me why we caught Loblaw's cheating on bread price fixing and have to give back $25 per family, and how come we can not catch the gas stations in the Montreal area? the price jump from $1.19 to $1.35 overnight!
Quelqu'un peut m'expliquer pourquoi on a attrappé Loblaw pour collusion des prix du pain et qui doit nous rembourser $25 par famille, alors pourquoi on ne peut pas attrapper ces stations d'essence qui font la loi à Montréal? le prix a grimpé de $1.19 à $1.35 du jour au lendemain!
Sur les nouvelles TVA, le gars disent que l'essence est $1.02 à Napierreville, alors qu'à Montréal c'est $1.35 ridicule!
aussi ils disent que c'est à cause du brut qui a monté! c'est du B.S. aujourd'hui le brut a chuté, mais pas aux pompes! seuls les enfants croient à ceux qu'ils disent!
They said it's because the price of the barrel jump! it's all B.S. ! today it went down, and still no decrease at the pump? :fish:

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

We are being scammed yes but the price of a barrel does little in the cost of the pump gas " so they say ", it boils down to the refineries, if they have shutdowns or whatever stupid reason they can think of. About 10 years ago when oil was $100 a barrel we paid $1 a liter, $140 a barrel we paid $1.40 a liter, $80 a barrel we paid $0.80 a liter.... you get the point. Since the oil crash this all changed, new excuses came up, we have a new calculation for gas prices, called fucking the consumer. We should be paying about $0.65 to $0.70 a liter for gas right now, no amount of bitching will change that. You can be pissed at banks also, their profits make oil look like peanuts, they use our money, invest our money and through loans using our money make billions, no one complains. Same with politicians, they get an good wage, extremely good pensions, they work for us, we pay them and they fuck us over all the time.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Sam21
Are you sure gas taxes aren't a fixed amount per gallon/litre? That's how it usually works.

Until gas stations get caught red-handed like Loblaw, it'll be blamed on supply fluctuations and refineries. We have sharp cost per gallon increases here too, especially around natural disasters. Sometimes refinery accidents do happen that lead to shortages and increased prices. But unless you had insider info, honestly no one would know if gas stations tacked on additional cents to take advantage of the situation. Price gouging is more obvious at say, $20/gallon versus $1.65. Authorities make a big deal about investigating price gouging during disasters but nothing ever comes of it. Advantage = gas station.

 

[CLOUD 500]

Sam21

You are right it is based on a percentage... Almost half of the cost of gasoline sold at the pumps are comprised of various taxes. Without taxes gasoline would probably be 40% cheaper. BTW governments and corporations have been working together for the past hundred years to exploit the working class to make themselves richer and us poorer. Nothing new here. See for yourself -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_fuel_taxes_in_Canada

 

[CLOUD 500]

Albacor

The price of gasoline depends on the price of crude oil. There are many reasons why crude oil can jump price... Could be demand is higher, growing exports, could also be due to a weaker loonie, or could be greedy corporations finding any reason to jack up the price they can do this by reducing the amount the amount of oil supply therefore increasing demand to supply to increase prices. Sometimes natural weather phenomena like a hurricane of some other natural disaster hampering the production of oil at the refineries could also increase prices.

 

[jalimon]

Albacor
The price of gasoline depends on the price of crude oil. There are many reasons why crude oil can jump price... Could be demand is higher, growing exports, could also be due to a weaker loonie, or could be greedy corporations finding any reason to jack up the price they can do this by reducing the amount the amount of oil supply therefore increasing demand to supply to increase prices. Sometimes natural weather phenomena like a hurricane of some other natural disaster hampering the production of oil at the refineries could also increase prices.

Or it could be as simple as a 3 day week-end coming over.... And definitely the day "vacance de la construction" begins...

Cheers,

 

[Albacor]

The price of gasoline depends on the price of crude oil. There are many reasons why crude oil can jump price... Could be demand is higher, growing exports, could also be due to a weaker loonie, or could be greedy corporations finding any reason to jack up the price they can do this by reducing the amount the amount of oil supply therefore increasing demand to supply to increase prices. Sometimes natural weather phenomena like a hurricane of some other natural disaster hampering the production of oil at the refineries could also increase prices.

Any event happens is a good reason for them to jack up the price !!! oh a hurricane in the mexico gulf, let's increase the price at the pumps; oh there is a trike in the refinery in Libya, let's raise the prices; oh a bomb exploded in Baghdad, let's jack up the price! oh there is a risk a war with North Korea, let's bump up the price! come on... Don't believe anymore this B.S. they said on TV :clap2:

 

[CLOUD 500]

Any event happens is a good reason for them to jack up the price !!! oh a hurricane in the mexico gulf, let's increase the price at the pumps; oh there is a trike in the refinery in Libya, let's raise the prices; oh a bomb exploded in Baghdad, let's jack up the price! oh there is a risk a war with North Korea, let's bump up the price! come on... Don't believe anymore this B.S. they said on TV :clap2:

Yep that sounds like greedy corporations. They will find any reason to jack prices to exploit their employees and rip off their customers. When the value of the dollar goes down they jack up prices and also when the value of the dollar goes up they also jack prices. Prices always go up it never goes down but salaries remain stagnant.