Canada Gasoline Prices

Maybe I’m missing something, but these prices don’t make sense to me. Is this link showing prices that are $100+ per liter?

That’s in cents per litre, not dollars per litre. When gas was below a dollar a litre, it made more sense to quote prices in cents (e.g. 67 cents per litre) rather than in dollars (e.g. 0.67 dollars per litre) and now it’s just a holdover, I guess.

Ah! Makes perfect “cents” now that you say that! :wink: Thanks for clarifying as I am thinking in dollars.

Agree with hogarth. Prices are normally advertised at gas stations as (for example) 122.9–note the lack of a dollar-creating decimal point; any decimal point indicates the tenths of a cent. So, my example would translate to “$1.22[sup]9[/sup].” At any rate, I’m thinking that your link is just showing gas prices the way we’re used to seeing them.

Note also that gas stations typically don’t show hundredths and thousandths of a cent-per-liter, as in your link. I’m guessing that’s a result of averaging, though.

Dude seriously? You were missing something that made you think gas cost four hundred bux a gallon?

And the reason it’s showing three decimal places of accuracy is presumably because that’s how gas prices are displayed in the U.S. and they didn’t bother changing it for the Canadian version.

Wow, my Ottawa price of $1.20/l is $4.54/gal in the US.

Yes, when they first switched to metric, prices were around 20 cents a litre. Joe Clark lost the election in 1980 partly because his budget suggested adding 2.5 cents to the price of 23-cent gas, IIRC.

I remember seeing a location in the late 70’s in the remote north that still had not converted, where the pumps were still in gallons, and it had a sticker saying “price at pump is double what is shown”. Tourists used to take pictures of the pumps where, “OMG, gas was over $1 a gallon!”. The gas pumps did not allow for greater than $1 as the set price - so converting to litres gained some stations a few years before they had to go to new electronic pumps.