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Scribblings Of Ed Wiebe
Gasoline (Gas) Prices in Parts of Canada between 1998 and 2014
[2015-03-17 New] Download a spreadsheet to see how much you will save by driving farther for less expensive fuel. Hint: not very much. Yes, fuel costs 8.1 cents per km for my car.
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The data on this page were collected on the dates shown by taking note of the information presented on the pump when gasoline (gas) was being purchased. Most of the gas was bought in western Canada, specifically Victoria, British Columbia. Some of it was bought on (nearly) cross-country trips as far east as Toronto. The red line on the plot below is a simple linear best fit to the data.
I've been experimenting with correcting the data for inflation. The green line on the plot shows the cost corrected to the value of the dollar in June of 2002 using the Consumer Price Index from the Bank of Canada. It really looks like taking the CPI into account makes the real price relatively flat since the big price crash in 2008. Interesting.
This data was collected by me. There are bound to be confounding factors tied up in these data. For example, BC introduced an (excellent) escalating (no longer, see story) carbon tax on gasoline (gas, among other things) in July 2008. Local government (Greater Victoria, Capital Regional District, CRD) has additional taxes that may have changed at times during this record. Sadly, I had a notebook with our gas purchases from the late nineteen-eighties to the beginning of this record which has been lost!
Here's a long record from victoriagasprices.com
Fuel prices are shown in red. The green curve is the fuel price corrected for inflation. The red line is the best linear fit to the red curve. The dark green line is the best fit to the green curve. The slopes of the lines, giving the average rate of change (increase) of the price of gasoline (gas) over the period of the data, are shown on the plot in corresponding colours.
All of this means that, on average, the price of gasoline (gas) where I have bought it (mostly in Victoria BC) has risen at a rate of 3.7 cents per year in unadjusted, experiential cents. If one factors in the Consumer Price Index as a measure of inflation the the price has risen at a rate of 1.7 cents per year in equivalent, comparable cents.
The graph showing the trend adjusted price might also be interesting. In this figure I have subtracted the trend from the unadjusted prices. Basically, the trend line now lies along the 0 value of the vertical axis of the figure. Plotting the data in this way helps to see how the price swings above and below the trend line. Especially dramatic is the price rise in the summer of 2008.
News Items and Commentary
[2015-12-18] No one visiting my site will be surprised to hear that I think gasoline should cost a lot more than it does. The fair way to do this in BC and across Canada and the world is to increase the carbon tax (or add one) levied on this fuel and others. I can't predict the future but it looks like gas prices are set to drop quickly as the refiners and retailers catch up to the falling price of oil. Now is the time for governments to follow British Columbia's lead and impose a fair, increasing carbon tax on fossil fuels.
[2015-05-06] Victoria-area gasoline prices leap overnight. "[T]he price boost is the result of a combination of higher crude prices and rising wholesale gasoline prices".
[2015-03-16] From the CBC Canadian dollar dips as oil drops to 6-year low below $44.
[2015-03-04] From Times Colonist Prices at Victoria gas pumps surge in 'perfect storm' for consumers. Prices are expected to rise on Vancouver Island in the short term due to strikes at refineries, changes to summer fuel blends.
[2015-02-13] From CBC, Gas prices: Unravelling the mystery of what you pay at the pump.
[2015-02-04] Gasoline prices heading up, analyst says Crude prices have been rising.
[2015-01-31] If I'm honest I will admit I find the idea of studying business and economics loathsome. Why? Probably because what I see causing so much harm in the world is (what I perceive as) business people behaving selfishly to benefit themselves at everyone else's expense. My own biases perhaps. Here's Mark Jaccard discussing what how he discusses the price of oil with his students. Understanding oil demand, oil prices and climate. I still think prices will rise again in the short term but will wait and see.
[2015-01-21] I remain confident that prices will rise again soonish. We'll see ...
[2015-01-21] David Suzuki discusses Why Lower Fuel Prices Are Not a Reason to Celebrate.
[2014-12-08 I may have had this all backwards. What if the oil market place was never remotely an open market where supply and demand naturally find a balance? It could be, it seems likely that, this market is completely manipulated by various players to set the price where they want it. Why they want a high price or a low price differs presumably dependent on interest in profit and geopolitics. Sigh. CBC: Oil price slumps again as Morgan Stanley predicts $43 a barrel. I guess the real game behind these price drops could be an attempt to see how low they can be pushed and who cannot handle that kind of pressure. It's quite fascinating, frightening, disappointing. Waiting and seeing will tell us how deep and long this lull in prices will be.
[2014-12-02] CBC reports on rapidly falling oil prices and provides a list of winners and losers. The "Environment" is listed, last, as a loser. I would still bet today that oil prices will rise again and the rate will be similar to what has been observed in the past decade or so. I guess I just did.
[2014-10-27] Andrew Leach tweets Notice to all the "oil always goes up" crowd - you can buy oil for delivery in 2020 for a little over $80/bbl.. I honestly don't know quite what to make of this. If I understand it correctly it means that buyers and sellers of oil are right now betting that $80 per barrel will be a good price in six years. That is, most sellers won't be able to earn much more than that if they held on to their oil now, and most buyers believe they won't be able to get a better deal on the spot in 2020. I think. I'm the first one to admit I've got no training in economics ...
[2014-10-15] Gas prices at 5-year low and dropping Oil prices sink to $80 a barrel, down 30% since June. My guess is that the price will fall for a while and then slowly rise up to the trend line again.
[2014-07-20] Oil Consumption in United States is rising and it's not clear to me what this will mean for prices. The IEA just released (below) projections showing increasing supply of gasoline in the coming five years.
[2014-07-07] 
The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that North America will have an oversupply of gasoline by 2019. How this will affect prices is unclear (to me at least). The presentation from the IEA also suggests that demand for gasoline in North America will increase in the next five years. I've cached the report.
[2014-07-07] I'm adding a link to the BC Government page(s) on the Carbon Tax. I've cached their PDF describing the most recent review and policy directions for the tax.
[2014-06-20] Vancouver gasoline price hits record high which is not surprising considering the trend.
[2014-05-21] The Monterey Shale reserves estimate reduced by 96% by the USA Energy Information Administration (EIA). Hmmm, interesting to ponder what the fracking boom really means.
[2014-04-23] My gas price data appeared in the news.
[2014-04-15] Guess what? Gas prices expected to rise in Canada this summer.
[2014-01-09] Peak oil is still coming in spite of shale oil discoveries and fracking.
[2013-06-27] There is some interesting commentary on BC's carbon tax on the Skeptical Science website.
[2013-05-20] More concern about the rapid fluctuations in Vancouver Island gasoline prices.
[2013-04-02] This is interesting. According to the IMF (International Monetary Fund) global subsidies to the fossil fuel industry are really, really large.
[2012-12-31] Here's a nice bit of research showing that the apparent collusion that so many people seem to believe is really happening is actually an emergent property of our system of distributing and selling gasoline (gas).
[2012-09-14] Another news story about gasoline (gas) prices and the general mood. Drivers becoming numb to gas price spikes, experts say.
[2012-03-26] I spotted this today. It covers some interesting points typically brought up by the extrememly noisy fringe of folks who don't think much about what they shout. Gasoline (gas) prices in Canada and USA track each other very closely.
[2014-05-25] More commentary on cross-border shopping. It's not much affected by the BC Carbon Tax.
Opinion section: Humanity is being foolish and stupid
Start with some details such as can be seen at the following links.
What is the evidence of anthropogenic effects CO2 concentration in the atmosphere?
We are really doing on a number on the climate. This is especially true with regard to the rate of change of temperature.
With regard to the issues around carbon fuels, climate change, and humanity here is my perspective; this is all opinion as I don't imagine myself to be an expert on economics or public policy. I do have opinions though!
We (all of humanity) need to stop burning carbon fuels and releasing carbon (CO2, etc.) into the atmosphere. We need to stop doing this sooner rather than later. We need to do this because there is a lot of evidence that the carbon we have been emitting is causing harms that will be expensive to adapt to. Not to mention the actual, physical, harms that will befall many people around the world, especially in places less able to pay for the costs of adaptation. Many studies by real economists have shown it will be cheaper to pay for reduction and mitigation strategies now than adaptation in the future. I myself am not an economist or similar but as far as I can see people will not use less fuel (emit less carbon) if such fuels continue to be relatively inexpensive. So, I am a proponent for (almost?) anything that will raise the price of carbon fuels relative to other sources of energy.
I record the prices I pay at the pump out of interest and because without at least some data I don't have any real information about what's happening. My collection process is informal and the sampling rate is a low frequency so I miss some of the short-term swings in price (but in the long run those don't matter).
I post the prices because I see that people react emotionally, without much thought, to the swings in price and don't see (at all, apparently) the bigger picture. The important point to be taken from these gas price data is that the price is increasing faster than inflation. There is no indication that this will stop and many reasons why it will continue. Short-term swings in price are mostly meaningless. People planning their transportation needs should consider the continued rise in the price of fuel. I hope that by providing some observations of what is really happening people can have some information to provide a basis for discussion.
It's difficult to imagine it is possible that our government (whatever party might be in power) can do anything to actually lower prices. After all, the entire reason for tar (oil) sands development and other new development and extraction projects elsewhere around the globe is to make as much money as possible from the resources that are still as available as they are. Prices for carbon fuels are globally driven and since supply is shrinking and it is getting more and more expensive to extract the stuff and since demand is only rising, the price goes up. It's also worth thinking about what the government's role actually is and should be in helping corporate interests make profits.
I really do think it is foolish to continue to invest huge amounts of capital into these kinds of developments. Every dollar invested into more and more difficult to extract carbon fuel reservoirs is a dollar that cannot be invested into something else. By continuing to channel ever increasing fractions of our economic output into something that ultimately is just not sustainable we waste opportunities in the present to make things better in the future. Remember that at some time (we know that supplies are ultimately limited, finite), perhaps not too far off, it will cost a barrel of oil to get a barrel of oil out of the ground. At that point I think everyone will agree it's absolutely a waste of time and resources to continue the practice. Know that now it is costing a significant fraction of a barrel, something like $40 per barrel at the moment (2012), some tens of percent of the of final selling price, to produce a barrel of synthetic crude from the tar sands. This imbalance gets worse and worse all of the time. Furthermore, this imbalance is generally happening for all new sources of oil since they are all getting more and more difficult to extract. It really is a bad direction for our civilisation to take.
[Edit 2013-05-16 It looks like technology is improving rapidily enough in the short term that new known reserves of carbon fuels like oil and natural gas might be producing in the short term. The problem is that we now know that we must leave most (about two thirds) of current known reserves in the ground if we want to have a chance of keeping global temperature rise below 2 °C. Building new hydrocarbon infrastructure, like pipelines or liquified natural gas terminals, is even more obviously a waste of capital. So there are additional reasons to stop wasting capital on further carbon fuel exploration. We will not be able to, should not, must not use it in any case.]
Finally, there is the now clearly established link between our collective carbon emissions into the atmosphere and global climate change. Every gram of carbon we put into the atmosphere makes it warmer in the future and temperatures will not stabilize unless we stop adding carbon to the system.
End of opinion ... for now.The data are below. These are uncorrected for inflation.
This is the small print. These data are made freely available as is (are) with no guarantee that they are anything but what I say they are. You may use them for any purpose but please provide a link to this page noting that this is where you found them. It would be nice to let me know what you did with them as well.
Year Month Day Cents/Litre =============================== 1996 12 29 54.9 1998 01 17 52.9 1998 02 17 52.5 1998 03 30 47.9 1998 04 26 52.4 1998 05 24 52.4 1998 06 27 52.4 1998 07 19 51.9 1998 07 30 49.9 1998 07 31 55.9 1998 08 02 49.9 1998 08 05 56.9 1998 08 06 54.9 1998 08 06 55.9 1998 08 08 53.9 1998 08 10 59.4 1998 08 10 53.5 1998 08 11 53.9 1998 08 12 49.9 1998 08 16 50.9 1998 08 17 51.9 1998 09 02 55.9 1998 10 03 53.9 1998 10 31 53.7 1998 11 22 53.7 1998 12 20 49.9 1999 01 31 49.9 1999 02 28 49.9 1999 04 01 58.9 1999 04 15 58.6 1999 05 07 58.4 1999 06 07 60.5 1999 07 16 62.9 1999 09 27 64.9 1999 12 05 64.9 1999 12 31 61.9 2000 01 23 64.9 2000 02 11 64.9 2000 03 07 72.9 2000 04 03 71.9 2000 04 04 67.9 2000 04 04 68.9 2000 04 05 66.9 2000 04 06 72.9 2000 04 06 71.9 2000 04 06 69.5 2000 04 07 72.9 2000 04 08 71.9 2000 04 08 75.9 2000 04 08 75.5 2000 04 09 72.9 2000 04 10 65.9 2000 04 11 62.5 2000 04 24 62.7 2000 04 25 67.9 2000 04 26 72.9 2000 04 27 67.3 2000 04 28 74.9 2000 04 30 62.5 2000 05 01 67.9 2000 05 01 61.9 2000 05 02 62.9 2000 05 03 67.9 2000 07 27 76.9 2000 08 27 76.9 2000 09 29 80.9 2000 11 02 79.9 2000 11 19 79.9 2000 12 21 75.9 2001 01 26 73.9 2001 03 02 73.9 2001 04 16 71.9 2001 05 29 82.9 2001 07 06 73.9 2001 07 28 72.9 2001 07 30 67.9 2001 08 02 66.9 2001 08 05 63.9 2001 08 07 67.9 2001 08 11 71.9 2001 09 18 81.9 2001 10 19 73.9 2001 11 17 66.9 2001 12 21 61.9 2002 01 23 63.9 2002 02 21 63.9 2002 03 06 70.9 2002 04 15 75.0 2002 05 25 75.5 2002 05 26 75.5 2002 06 26 75.5 2002 06 27 72.9 2002 06 27 72.9 2002 07 02 69.4 2002 07 04 72.9 2002 07 04 72.9 2002 07 23 77.9 2002 08 30 77.9 2002 10 05 77.5 2002 11 09 77.5 2002 12 13 74.5 2002 12 31 74.5 2003 02 14 84.9 2003 03 09 88.4 2003 04 11 83.5 2003 05 11 79.9 2003 06 13 79.9 2003 07 15 79.9 2003 07 27 79.9 2003 08 26 89.9 2003 09 26 79.9 2003 10 26 76.9 2003 11 08 76.9 2003 12 01 74.5 2003 12 16 74.5 2004 01 06 74.5 2004 01 20 77.5 2004 01 31 79.9 2004 02 21 79.9 2004 03 09 84.9 2004 03 30 84.9 2004 04 18 87.5 2004 05 09 95.9 2004 06 08 98.5 2004 06 28 94.9 2004 07 13 93.9 2004 08 03 93.9 2004 08 29 93.9 2004 09 16 93.9 2004 10 03 93.9 2004 10 23 93.9 2004 11 09 92.5 2004 12 06 87.9 2004 12 18 89.9 2005 01 08 82.9 2005 01 21 82.9 2005 02 03 94.9 2005 02 08 88.9 2005 02 21 88.9 2005 03 04 92.9 2005 03 16 92.9 2005 04 05 96.9 2005 04 17 102.9 2005 05 03 107.9 2005 05 15 100.9 2005 05 29 96.9 2005 06 08 96.9 2005 06 19 99.9 2005 07 02 105.9 2005 07 09 86.4 2005 07 24 99.9 2005 08 08 104.9 2005 08 16 108.9 2005 09 02 117.9 2005 09 17 114.9 2005 09 30 114.9 2005 10 04 113.9 2005 10 21 106.9 2005 11 01 100.9 2005 11 16 96.9 2005 11 26 94.9 2005 12 09 91.9 2005 12 27 91.9 2006 01 12 102.9 2006 01 21 96.9 2006 02 04 93.9 2006 02 17 93.9 2006 02 24 93.9 2006 03 08 97.9 2006 03 19 101.9 2006 03 28 106.9 2006 04 10 110.9 2006 04 22 115.9 2006 05 09 119.9 2006 05 25 119.9 2006 06 07 119.9 2006 06 27 114.9 2006 07 07 115.9 2006 07 15 115.1 2006 07 21 115.1 2006 08 03 119.9 2006 08 19 117.9 2006 09 02 103.9 2006 09 14 101.9 2006 09 28 99.9 2006 10 11 99.9 2006 10 25 99.9 2006 11 05 97.9 2006 11 18 99.9 2006 12 02 99.9 2006 12 14 103.9 2006 12 27 106.9 2007 01 11 104.9 2007 01 23 98.9 2007 02 03 95.9 2007 02 15 99.9 2007 03 03 102.9 2007 03 17 110.5 2007 04 06 114.5 2007 04 21 118.5 2007 05 24 122.5 2007 06 07 116.5 2007 06 19 111.5 2007 06 30 111.5 2007 07 04 105.9 2007 07 05 110.0 2007 07 06 113.9 2007 07 07 100.9 2007 07 08 113.9 2007 07 08 110.9 2007 07 11 114.4 2007 07 12 114.9 2007 07 13 121.9 2007 07 13 106.9 2007 07 15 106.5 2007 07 17 106.4 2007 07 19 98.0 2007 07 21 99.2 2007 07 24 97.1 2007 07 25 94.4 2007 07 27 108.7 2007 07 27 106.9 2007 07 28 105.5 2007 07 28 116.9 2007 07 29 110.9 2007 07 29 113.9 2007 07 30 111.9 2007 07 30 105.9 2007 07 31 109.4 2007 07 31 99.4 2007 08 08 108.9 2007 08 24 105.9 2007 09 07 109.9 2007 09 16 109.9 2007 09 26 106.9 2007 10 06 102.9 2007 10 17 101.9 2007 10 25 100.9 2007 11 02 105.9 2007 11 12 105.9 2007 11 21 109.9 2007 11 25 109.9 2007 12 04 109.9 2007 12 13 107.9 2007 12 21 107.9 2008 01 07 109.9 2008 01 15 109.9 2008 01 24 107.9 2008 02 03 107.9 2008 02 11 107.9 2008 02 22 113.9 2008 02 25 110.4 2008 03 01 113.9 2008 03 09 113.9 2008 03 19 117.9 2008 03 28 121.4 2008 04 06 121.4 2008 04 15 121.4 2008 04 23 124.9 2008 05 02 129.9 2008 05 14 136.9 2008 05 25 136.9 2008 06 02 136.9 2008 06 07 139.9 2008 06 13 136.4 2008 06 22 146.9 2008 06 27 146.9 2008 07 08 144.9 2008 07 18 148.9 2008 07 27 142.9 2008 08 03 142.9 2008 08 13 142.9 2008 08 20 142.9 2008 08 31 142.9 2008 09 09 138.9 2008 09 18 134.9 2008 10 01 129.9 2008 10 09 121.9 2008 10 17 118.9 2008 10 29 110.9 2008 11 05 104.9 2008 11 14 97.9 2008 11 24 92.9 2008 12 02 85.4 2008 12 08 86.9 2008 12 18 81.9 2008 12 24 81.9 2009 01 09 89.9 2009 01 17 94.9 2009 01 28 94.9 2009 02 04 92.9 2009 02 12 99.9 2009 02 25 93.9 2009 03 04 93.9 2009 03 12 99.9 2009 03 16 93.9 2009 03 23 98.9 2009 04 01 96.9 2009 04 04 96.9 2009 04 11 96.9 2009 04 18 99.9 2009 04 25 98.9 2009 05 05 102.9 2009 05 17 102.9 2009 05 26 107.9 2009 05 31 107.9 2009 06 02 107.9 2009 06 18 106.9 2009 06 25 106.9 2009 06 26 106.9 2009 07 11 108.9 2009 07 21 98.9 2009 07 29 101.9 2009 08 03 102.9 2009 08 29 107.9 2009 09 04 105.5 2009 09 15 109.9 2009 09 16 109.5 2009 10 01 102.9 2009 10 16 97.9 2009 10 27 106.9 2009 11 07 105.9 2009 11 21 104.9 2009 11 29 99.9 2009 11 30 104.9 2009 12 01 104.9 2009 12 09 104.9 2009 12 16 102.9 2009 12 22 102.9 2010 01 03 105.5 2010 01 14 103.9 2010 01 25 97.9 2010 02 02 97.9 2010 02 15 102.9 2010 03 05 102.9 2010 03 20 107.9 2010 03 31 107.9 2010 03 31 107.9 2010 04 09 105.9 2010 04 24 105.9 2010 05 07 105.9 2010 05 07 105.9 2010 05 11 105.9 2010 05 26 110.9 2010 06 12 110.9 2010 06 20 110.9 2010 06 22 109.9 2010 06 30 110.9 2010 07 05 112.0 2010 07 07 112.0 2010 07 18 112.0 2010 07 30 112.0 2010 08 14 112.0 2010 08 29 112.0 2010 09 10 112.0 2010 09 26 109.9 2010 10 04 109.9 2010 10 10 109.9 2010 10 13 109.9 2010 11 01 114.9 2010 11 04 114.9 2010 11 19 112.9 2010 11 30 112.9 2010 11 30 112.9 2010 12 01 110.9 2010 12 13 112.9 2010 12 15 112.9 2010 12 26 112.9 2011 01 15 112.9 2011 02 24 123.9 2011 03 01 122.9 2011 03 07 123.9 2011 03 08 121.9 2011 03 08 123.9 2011 03 26 128.9 2011 04 03 128.9 2011 04 13 128.9 2011 04 22 131.9 2011 05 04 131.9 2011 05 11 137.9 2011 05 22 131.9 2011 06 10 129.9 2011 06 13 125.9 2011 06 14 123.9 2011 06 23 124.9 2011 06 27 116.9 2011 06 28 125.9 2011 07 03 122.9 2011 07 04 119.9 2011 07 16 116.9 2011 07 26 113.9 2011 08 10 116.9 2011 08 13 113.9 2011 08 27 125.9 2011 09 09 134.9 2011 10 01 126.9 2011 10 15 118.9 2011 10 20 128.9 2011 11 15 123.9 2011 12 03 105.9 2011 12 14 101.9 2011 12 19 111.9 2011 12 29 120.9 2012 01 19 122.9 2012 02 01 120.9 2012 02 15 118.9 2012 02 29 134.9 2012 03 14 132.9 2012 03 30 128.9 2012 04 12 130.9 2012 04 18 134.9 2012 05 05 133.9 2012 05 16 131.9 2012 05 18 134.9 2012 06 03 139.9 2012 06 16 139.9 2012 07 07 120.9 2012 07 19 126.9 2012 07 28 125.9 2012 08 14 125.5 2012 09 01 124.9 2012 09 12 127.9 2012 09 13 125.9 2012 10 02 120.9 2012 10 12 129.9 2012 10 30 114.9 2012 12 03 113.9 2013 01 13 115.9 2013 01 25 115.9 2013 02 02 117.9 2013 02 13 123.9 2013 02 28 120.9 2013 03 16 119.9 2013 04 03 129.9 2013 04 09 129.9 2013 04 17 122.9 2013 05 15 135.9 2013 05 22 139.9 2013 05 30 127.9 2013 06 05 131.9 2013 06 07 135.9 2013 06 10 135.9 2013 06 12 132.9 2013 06 16 135.9 2013 07 05 135.9 2013 07 16 141.9 2013 08 02 141.9 2013 08 16 135.9 2013 09 01 135.9 2013 09 11 132.9 2013 09 25 130.9 2013 09 26 128.9 2013 10 09 124.9 2013 10 26 121.9 2013 11 16 117.9 2013 11 27 117.9 2013 12 15 115.9 2013 12 29 127.9 2014 01 10 115.9 2014 01 28 118.9 2014 02 02 118.9 2014 02 25 124.9 2014 03 22 129.9 2014 03 27 133.9 2014 04 08 129.6 2014 04 18 142.9 2014 05 03 141.9 2014 05 13 138.9 2014 05 28 138.9 2014 06 04 137.9 2014 06 07 138.8 2014 06 11 137.9 2014 06 16 138.8 2014 07 03 138.8 2014 08 07 130.9 2014 08 25 130.9 2014 10 08 123.9 2014 10 19 113.9 2014 10 24 123.9 2014 11 02 115.9 2014 11 15 111.9 2014 11 25 114.9 2014 12 09 114.9 2014 12 22 101.9 2015 01 08 101.9 2015 01 15 93.9 2015 01 22 96.9 2015 02 02 99.9 2015 02 21 102.9 2015 03 01 112.9 2015 03 20 118.9 2015 04 18 117.9 2015 05 03 117.9 2015 05 30 123.9 2015 06 16 126.9 2015 06 23 129.9 2015 07 11 127.9 2015 07 23 126.9 2015 08 12 123.9 2015 09 06 116.9 2015 09 18 108.9 2015 10 01 107.9 2015 10 06 112.9 2015 10 31 109.9 2015 11 19 116.9 2015 12 03 114.9 2015 12 15 112.9 2015 12 16 116.9 2015 12 23 112.9 2016 01 07 112.9 2016 02 03 96.9 2016 02 10 95.9 2016 02 22 98.9 2016 03 13 105.9 2016 04 20 105.9 2016 04 27 108.9 2016 05 07 108.9 2016 05 17 115.9 2016 05 29 114.9 2016 06 13 114.9 2016 07 12 113.9 2016 08 14 112.9 2016 09 10 117.9 2016 09 30 116.9 2016 10 20 122.9 2016 11 09 122.9 2016 12 01 113.9 2016 12 01 126.9 2017 02 19 116.9 2017 03 10 126.9 2017 04 10 128.9 2017 04 22 128.9 2017 04 26 131.9 2017 05 10 123.9 2017 05 18 129.9 2017 06 07 127.9 2017 07 05 121.9 2017 07 08 121.9 2017 08 07 121.9 2017 08 27 129.9 2017 09 23 128.9 2017 10 12 126.9 2017 10 22 126.9 2017 12 07 129.9 2017 12 23 126.9 2018 02 10 135.9 2018 03 14 140.9 2018 04 02 145.9 2018 04 27 152.9 2018 05 21 155.9 2018 06 13 150.9 2018 06 19 147.9 2018 06 20 146.9 2018 07 24 145.9 2018 08 23 143.9 2018 09 08 143.9 2018 10 04 149.9 2018 11 01 143.9 2018 12 19 137.9 2019 01 27 127.9 2019 03 04 139.9 2019 04 07 153.9 2019 04 28 161.9 2019 06 09 151.9 2019 07 02 129.9 2019 07 04 143.9 2019 07 14 145.9 2019 08 03 137.9 2019 09 08 141.9 2019 10 17 157.9 2019 11 02 145.9 2019 12 04 132.9 2020 01 09 139.9 2020 02 17 142.9 2020 02 22 141.9 2020 02 06 102.9 2020 05 21 115.9 2020 07 30 129.9 2020 10 29 119.9 2020 12 24 119.9 2021 03 20 152.9 2021 05 17 153.9 2021 06 24 162.9 2021 08 15 164.9 2021 09 18 156.9 2021 10 28 159.9 2021 11 24 157.9 2022 01 02 150.8 2022 02 20 179.9 2022 04 10 189.9 2022 06 23 221.9 2022 07 24 194.9 2022 07 27 177.9 2022 07 25 193.9 2022 07 29 152.9 2022 07 30 168.9 2022 07 30 179.9 2022 08 02 181.9 2022 08 03 176.9 2022 08 03 191.9 2022 08 04 182.9 2022 08 07 165.9 2022 08 10 164.9 2022 08 12 174.2 2022 08 12 168.9 2022 08 13 185.9 2022 08 13 157.9 2022 08 14 179.9 2022 08 16 168.9 2022 08 16 155.9 2022 08 17 159.9 2022 08 17 141.9 2022 08 18 147.9 2022 08 18 189.9 2022 08 19 189.9 2022 08 20 184.9 2022 10 16 214.9 2023 01 02 169.9 2022 12 03 163.9 2023 02 11 182.9 2023 04 10 179.9 2023 06 03 190.9 2023 07 26 193.9 2023 08 09 197.9 2023 10 22 186.9 2023 12 23 166.9 2024 03 09 184.9 Date is year, month, day. The price is listed in cents (unadjusted). Most of the fuel was purchased in Victoria. Some was purchased as far east as Toronto (long ago).
This is the small print. These data are made freely available as is (are) with no guarantee that they are anything but what I say they are. You may use them for any purpose but please provide a link to this page noting that this is where you found them. It would be nice to let me know what you did with them as well.
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