Gas Prices - what are they where you live now

are stations around me pretty much stayed the same today. I don't know that they'll stay there tomorrow though - crude went up again today

Benchmark crude prices rose by $1.55 to end the day at $107.83 per barrel in New York.
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currently still 3.79/reg
$ 109.24 oil - $1.41 up as of now
 
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Just gonna leave this here.
 
iluvmycsx said:
price went up 4 cents to 119.9 per liter for regular
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Cheaper in your province than mine :pout:
In New Brunswick it's $1.32/litre for regular and $1.39/litre for premium... so if my math is correct that works out to about $5.01/US gallon for regular and $5.27/US gallon for premium.
 
Pretty sure Canada is also paying for health insurance as part of gas price among other social expenses. Now imagine your paycheck without health care costs on there. That's a lot of extra gas money for $1 more per gallon
 
k757 said:
Pretty sure Canada is also paying for health insurance as part of gas price among other social expenses. Now imagine your paycheck without health care costs on there. That's a lot of extra gas money for $1 more per gallon
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We pay more tax in Canada on everything (including fuel) than the US and a portion of all of our GST/HST does go to our health care plan, but our taxes on gas specifically are not directly related to our government funded health care plan any more so than taxes on all of our other commodities/services are. The actual national taxes (GST/HST) charged on our gas is the same as it is on clothing, toilet paper, etc (in my province I pay 13% GST/HST on essentially everything I buy, including gas, with some exceptions on select groceries). A lot of our gas specific taxes are Provinicially added and governed, where as the bulk of our health care is funded Nationally (over 80%) by the GST/HST, so it isn't really the additional gas taxing that is funding our health care system. The majority of extra gas taxes are going into a different pot than where the country pulls it's health care funding from.
 
MissE said:
We pay more tax in Canada on everything (including fuel) than the US and a portion of all of our GST/HST does go to our health care plan, but our taxes on gas specifically are not directly related to our government funded health care plan any more so than taxes on all of our other commodities/services are. The actual national taxes (GST/HST) charged on our gas is the same as it is on clothing, toilet paper, etc (in my province I pay 13% GST/HST on essentially everything I buy, including gas, with some exceptions on select groceries). A lot of our gas specific taxes are Provinicially added and governed, where as the bulk of our health care is funded Nationally (over 80%) by the GST/HST, so it isn't really the additional gas taxing that is funding our health care system. The majority of extra gas taxes are going into a different pot than where the country pulls it's health care funding from.
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I looked at taxes maybe a year ago to compare. It looked fairly similar on income, but taxes on goods were higher in Canada without a doubt. Granted, it's not as easy as comparing one country to another, as every state, county, city has different rates. Some states have no income tax, yet have sales tax on goods. Others have no sales tax on goods, but have significantly higher taxes on income. Some states like California have like 10% income, and over 8% sales tax on goods. Then add in federal taxes and so on.
 
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