Premier Doug Ford went off on gas prices on Thursday, mentioning concerns about price gouging and comparisons to gas prices south of the border.
RELATED: Gas went up 14 cents per litre overnight across Ontario and Quebec. Jaden Lee-Lincoln explains why a switch to summer fuel blends from winter is a driving factor.During a question and answer period at a stop in Oakville, Ont., Ford went off on gas prices , mentioning concerns about price gouging and comparisons to, but depending on where you are in the province you may have seen a jump as high as 22.3 cents.
“You go out last night and you’re sitting there for 20 minutes in the line up to get gas, you know, and it’s unacceptable. Everywhere I was going, it was about a buck, 59. You wake up this morning and it’s $1.80. You know, it’s absolutely disgusting.”Ford first aimed his frustration at oil companies, wondering if tanks at the gas station are drained of winter gas overnight or if consumers are being gouged.
However, Dan McTeague, president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, said those US markets made the switch from winter to summer gasoline about a month ago as those regions are tied to the Chicago comprehensive prices while most of Ontario’s prices are tied to what happens in the New York Harbour, which switched to the summer blend on April 16.
“More often than not, the refiners will have already begun putting, refined summer blend gasoline even before that date. But that’s the date in which they had to charge it.”While McTeague conceded that it is possible that not all the gas stations have switched over and that some people are buying winter gasoline at summer gasoline prices, he stressed that the price is not based on the cost of gas within the station, but rather on how much the station will have to pay to replace that gas.
Elsewhere in Ontario, the price of gas climbed 7.1 cents to 171.1 cents per litre in London, 9 cents to 173.1 cents per litre in Kitchener, 9 cents to 169.8 cents per litre in Hamilton, 15.3 cents to 178.9 cents per litre in Guelph, 8.1 cents to 169.7 cents per litre in Toronto, 16 cents to 179.9 cents per litre in Kingston, 11.3 cents to 172.2 cents per litre in Barrie and 12.3 cents to 169.9 cents per litre in Peterborough.
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