Gasoline shortage.

[Accremonious]

Went to fill up my wife's car tonight after midnight when the bargain prices are posted here in Oshawa for the taxi drivers and others on nights. Shell is out of 87 & 89 Octanes and is selling 91 octane at same price as if it was 87 Octane. They are claiming that the rail strike has hit them hard. Also at least one auto assembly plant is shut down for lack of parts caused by the rail strike. Now everyone should be happy that our food is primarily delivered by trucks! Unless they run out of diesel! But the Gov't will have to legislate them back to work before too much longer
It is an essential service like police, fire and ambulance!

[irish cattle hauler]

THATS JUST TO BAD AT LEAST GAS OR PETROL AS ITS CALLED IN EUROPE IS A LOT CHEAPER IN N. AMERICA THAN PARTS OF EUROPE TAKE THE UK FOR INSTANCE PETROL IS CLOSE TO £1.00 A LITRE AND DIESEL ISNT THAT FAR BEHIND IN IRELAND ESPECIALLY IN THE BORDER AREAS IF ANYONE IS FIMILIAR WITH THE THE IRISH BORDER THAT SEPARATES THE NORTH FROM THE SOUTH THERE IS LARGE SCALE LAUNDERING OF DIESEL WHICH IS BIG BUISSNESS AND BIG MONEY IT REQUIRES THE RED DIE BEING EXTRACTED FROM RED DIESEL THEN IT IS SOLD AS WHITE DIESEL IN SMALL GARAGES THAT STRADDLE THE BORDER

[Drifter]

Esso cardlock on 400 southbound out of fuel at noon today also 2 esso cardlocks in Mississauga out of fuel about 1 o clock. Husky on Curtney park in Mississauga was rationing 200 litres per sale. All because of a little fire in Burlington at the refinery. :wtf:

[Accremonious]

Don't forget that Esso had that big fire in a processing unit at Sarnia, too.
Two weeks ago I caught one tankfull for the wife after midnight @ shell on Stevenson & King in Oshawa for 69.9 cents and the tank b 4 that @ 70.5!
The media is reporting today that the rail strike is hurting Northern Ont. badly for food and fuel! At least you could burn cornoil or filtered deepfryer juice if you get desparate for diesel! What would it smell like after onion rings and jumbo shrimp with the taters? Incidentally the best fuel for a diesel for power and the least pollution is canola oil (rapeseed), but it is way too expensive! Canola seed is very small like mustard seed and it takes specialized equipment to handle/harvest it. Then it is crushed between rollers to extract the oil. But the fields of it in bloom are a brilliant yellow, and requires lots of honey bees. That is another reason we get stung at the pumps, I guess!

[Accremonious]

Dave, the price we pay in each Province has to be taken with a look at the Provincial sales taxes. Quebecers are more than hosed, they are robbed blind. Then there is the transportation factors. We have prices that are higher where the delivery point is farther from the refineries or pipeline head. Are you aware that the crude oil pipeline flow direction was reversed between Montreal and Toronto? We are using Newfy crude here now and it is of higher quality, more light ends and lower sulfur, yet London pays more even though they are closer to Sarnia! Years ago we used to get offshore gasoline from tankers that transloaded into some Seaway tankers but that dried up when the vessels were passed their seaworthiness tickets and cut up for scrap. One spilled a whole lot into Oshawa Harbour one day and the Port had to be shutdown while the gasoline was allowed to drift out and evaporate plus there was detergent spread on it. I saw on the printed ticker on Cable Pulse24 tonight that Esso Nanticoke also has had a fire this year. I worked in that one for 11 weeks back when Esso just bought it from Texaco. That was when Linda Shaw was murdered and burned after Easter weekend. The OPP just solved that case last year after was it 18 or so years!
Some of the price wars we see here are the different companies trying to run other suppliers out of their territory, too!

[Marliz]

We are at 95.9 cents a litre here now it is at 91 cents earlier today.
Marliz

[Accremonious]

If you want to know the latest prices go to:
www.torontogasprices.com
then click on the link at the bottom. On the next screen on the left side you can access all of N. America. BUT this is a voluntary reporting and it is not complete or up todate for all locations. It depends on you to join and post your price paid and or observed! Enjoy!!!!
(I first found this on www.680news.com next to the lottery corp link)

[Accremonious]

I just fueled up at 92.4 cents and it is still the 91 octane ! Whilest there a CN Rail employee came in so we started the usual banter about the strikers, etc. He said that here in the East they went back to work yesterday morning and that there is 147 rail cars on a siding in Brockville Ont. full of gasoline, but management has them marked as LOW PRIORITY!! Do not move unless all other freight is taken care of first!
I am just boiling angry! Peoples lives, jobs and health are at risk especially in Northern Ont. where they have run out totally in some areas!
This strike has been orchestrated and contrived by upper management goading these workers into striking. Remember that soon after the shares of CP Rail were repatriated from the UK to Canada it took just 9 months for their ownership to migrate to Chicago, and after our Goofoffermunt put the shares of CN Rail onto the market it took only 5 months for them to become American owned. It is time we Canadians woke up! We are being manipulated every which way we turn. They dont hesitate to lay us off or fire us well it is time we did the same to them. We can fire their political pimps at the polls very soon and EVERYONE OF THEM regardless of party affiliation! You want to play F***Y F***Y well it takes 2 to tango but it is time we should boogie!!!!!! I can't prove the truth of the statement but his voice rang true and I have seen him before fuelling that
piece of equipment.....................**********.......... .......***********

[Accremonious]

I'm not sure the pot would be full if we had one!

[buzzy]

Ok it's the weekend and guess what?

I saw $1/litre on the way home tonite.

My question is..................
reports are Esso had a fire in the refinery in Nanticoke 2 weeks ago. Ok, so there is a shortage from ESSO to it's suppliers.

WHY was the price rising at SHELL and BP? Sympathy Pains?

Talk about gouging! :angry: :angry: :angry:

[Accremonious]

The supplies for Shell & BP are brought in from Montreal area refineries via CN Rail which is on strike............and the limited number of trains are being run by management replacement Conductors. I wish that I had the means to prove my statements of the other night! Without a badge and a subpena you are a nobody! Plus the Media are too easily fooled by the corporate spin doctors. We are being lied to and robbed blind, but don't raise hell about it because they have a nicely upholstered room and 3 squares a day for you! Go to www.guerrillanews.com and find the article about the mass detention sites that the US Military have awarded contracts for to be built on the lower 48's soil. When this was discovered it was explained away that it was incase there is massive uncontrolled illegal immigration! Ya, right, and how many malcontents with homeland born birth certs will also be swept up too? At times a healthy dose of paranoia helps one find the real direction the hand basket we are in is headed!

[FLHT Ron]

I got gas for free the other day!!

How the school busses in the yard down the road were missing gas is beyond me!!! :p :classic:

[Accremonious]

Y'all gotta hillbillie fuelin station over yer way, huh?

[Drifter]

blech--gotta get me one of them pumping things ;) ..guess lighting a cigarette would be dumn right now :wacko:

[Accremonious]

Thets jist an easy way tuh becum a hoser, eh!