Is Bruce Fitch for real????
Story from CBC New Brunswick:
Free market oil prices give consumers cold comfort
CBC have once again taken a look at home heating fuel prices......and once again the numbers show what most of us already knew here in New Brunswick.....We are being gouged by the oil companies.
CBC's numbers:
Average heating oil prices 2002-2005 (cents/litre)
P.E.I. 53.7
Fredericton 55.9
Woodstock 58.2
Sussex 58.6
Edmundston 58.6
St. Stephen 59
Moncton 59.3
Saint John 59.5
Tracadie 60
Campbellton 60.3
Bathurst 61.8
Miramichi 62.1
This of course is the "average", but many times it's a MUCH bigger difference than even these numbers show. Make sure to check out the site above for the full story.
Here we are, with the Largest Canadian Oil refinery in our backyard, in Saint John, and we pay higher prices than P.E.I. (Or pretty much everywhere else in Eastern Canada including Newfoundland,) And most of P.E.I's oil is imported from New Brunswick. According to New Brunswick Energy Minister Bruce Fitch, and I quote...
"The information given to me is that on average the unregulated (New Brunswick) market is lower."
What planet is this man on?? Where in hell does he get his numbers?? Even studies by his own department tell a different story. Someones giving him bad information I'd say.
Maybe it's high time we moved to a regulated price system here in New Brunswick. I'm not normally in favor of more and more government regulation......but sometimes that's all that works. It's no different than gas prices, which are normally higher the closer you get to the refinery. Does it make sense that it gets cheaper the farther you truck it??? I think not.........
Free market oil prices give consumers cold comfort
CBC have once again taken a look at home heating fuel prices......and once again the numbers show what most of us already knew here in New Brunswick.....We are being gouged by the oil companies.
CBC's numbers:
Average heating oil prices 2002-2005 (cents/litre)
P.E.I. 53.7
Fredericton 55.9
Woodstock 58.2
Sussex 58.6
Edmundston 58.6
St. Stephen 59
Moncton 59.3
Saint John 59.5
Tracadie 60
Campbellton 60.3
Bathurst 61.8
Miramichi 62.1
This of course is the "average", but many times it's a MUCH bigger difference than even these numbers show. Make sure to check out the site above for the full story.
Here we are, with the Largest Canadian Oil refinery in our backyard, in Saint John, and we pay higher prices than P.E.I. (Or pretty much everywhere else in Eastern Canada including Newfoundland,) And most of P.E.I's oil is imported from New Brunswick. According to New Brunswick Energy Minister Bruce Fitch, and I quote...
"The information given to me is that on average the unregulated (New Brunswick) market is lower."
What planet is this man on?? Where in hell does he get his numbers?? Even studies by his own department tell a different story. Someones giving him bad information I'd say.
Maybe it's high time we moved to a regulated price system here in New Brunswick. I'm not normally in favor of more and more government regulation......but sometimes that's all that works. It's no different than gas prices, which are normally higher the closer you get to the refinery. Does it make sense that it gets cheaper the farther you truck it??? I think not.........
