With gas pushing $1.70 per litre, they’re keeping a keen eye on how higher fuel costs will impact their fuel budgets.
British Columbians already feeling the pinch at the pump might see a few extra pennies on their tax bills too, due to the record-smashing gas prices across Metro Vancouver.
The City of Surrey anticipates taxpayers could be on the hook for up to an additional $150,000-$180,000 to fuel its fleet in 2019, compared with 2018. But recent increases at private fuel stations don’t impact the City of Vancouver’s fleet because of contracts the city already has for fuel purchases, a spokeswoman said. The city’s ongoing transition to electric vehicles — it boasts one of the largest municipal electric fleets in Canada — has helped too.
Some of TransLink’s buses in Vancouver are trolleys that run on electricity, but a portion of its bus fleet and its non-revenue vehicles, such as maintenance vehicles and pool cars, use gas and diesel. The ferry operator said a fifth vessel running on liquefied natural gas will join its fleet Thursday. LNG is better for the environment and costs about half as much as the ultralow sulphur diesel used by its other ferries, the spokeswoman said.
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