# Gas Wars! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760 "2001-01-18T22:02:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760/1 "2001-01-18T22:02:09Z")
Well, there is no real particular reason for this thread other than to discuss something happening in my small little city in Northern Alberta. In the past 2 weeks, the price of gas at the pump here has dropped 24cents. It was **69.9 cents/L** here 2 weeks ago at this time and now is is **45.4 cents/L** – 3.78L to the US gallon = $1.70 Canadian per US Gallon right now ($1CDN = .66c US). It also appears to still be dropping. I actually have a question to dopers out of this though. We are undoubtly in a gas war right now, but has gasoline wholesale prices changed much in the past 2 weeks that could have triggered this? ---
**Author:** ![Palmyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@Palmyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palmyra)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760/2 "2001-01-18T22:15:22Z")
If I figured this right, you’re paying $1.122 [US] per gallon… That’s really not fair. Gas is at least $1.32 [US] per gallon around me area and that bottom price has been holding steady for awhile now. Who knows what’s going on up there. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760/3 "2001-01-18T23:11:23Z")
Around me they’re doing it backwards, seeing who can raise it higher. About US$1.60/gal. OTOH, eat your hearts out, Yur-Peens! ---
**Author:** ![zyzzyva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@zyzzyva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zyzzyva)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760/4 "2001-01-19T02:42:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Palmyra \* > \*\*If I figured this right, you’re paying $1.122 [US] per gallon… That’s really not fair. Gas is at least $1.32 [US] per gallon around me area and that bottom price has been holding steady for awhile now. Who knows what’s going on up there. \*\* You sure you did the math right? I came up with $2.22US per gallon. That makes sense given that the Canadian gov’t, like that of every _other_ industrialized nation on the planet, actually taxes gas by more than a few cents. [sub](Personally, i won’t be satisfied until the PPG of gasoline rivals that of White Out, but that’s just me.) ;)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760/5 "2001-01-19T03:38:21Z")
Yep. Palmyra did it right. Remember, its $1.70 CANADIAN $$. @ .66 US per dollar = 1.12 (1.70x.66) ---
**Author:** ![zyzzyva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@zyzzyva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zyzzyva)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760/6 "2001-01-19T07:41:18Z")
oh, right. i misread it as $3.78/gallon. ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760/7 "2001-01-19T07:43:57Z")
Damn I’d kill for gas prices of 1.12 right now I have to settle with 1.52 ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760/8 "2001-01-19T14:28:56Z")
Well don’t feel left out. It looks like its over. Some places are back up to around 60c /L now. Doh! ---
**Author:** ![starfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@starfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starfish)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760/9 "2001-01-19T14:30:20Z")
Last week I got gas for $1.29/gal [Houston]. This week the signs on the stations have all gone back up to $1.35 but the pump price is $1.27. They may be planning an increase. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-wars/50760/10 "2001-01-19T18:34:55Z")
Oh! _that_ kind of gas! I was gonna get ready by having dinner ala Blazing Saddles! Our gas here ranges from 1.31 to 1.52 PG, down from 1.69 a couple of weeks ago.