John Horgan is seeking to dampen criticism that government taxes are to blame for rising gasoline costs.
VICTORIA – Premier John Horgan has asked the independent B.C. Utilities Commission to investigate the high price of gasoline in Metro Vancouver, as he seeks to dampen criticism government taxes are to blame for rising costs.
Horgan has in turn blamed gas companies for gouging consumers, and asked his deputy minister, Don Wright, to investigate what if anything the province can do in response. “Everyone benefits if we have a common set of facts that you can report on with confidence it’s not spin. Horgan also revealed Tuesday that he spoke with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and asked him to consider reducing the amount of diluted bitumen travelling from Alberta to Burnaby in the federally owned Trans Mountain pipeline so that more refined gasoline could be shipped to Vancouver.“I laid out for him my concerns about the inordinate spike about retail gas prices in British Columbia that were not connected to any policy decisions, it just seemed to be in my opinion gouging.
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