Editor:
To the Tsawwassenite(s) complaining about gas pricing discrepancies Ladner and Tsawwassen…be done with it.
It's been said 'It's a free world' (can't remember who said it) and, too often, a shop owner has to 'knuckle under' and charge more for the product being sold just to stay profitable. He/she will be seen to raise prices, perhaps even reluctantly, due to (a) increasing overhead costs sometimes attributed to escalating land values (higher rents to be paid) and needing subsidizing by our governments (b) fewer customers filling up (now with a noticeable lifestyle shift to cleaner, more efficient vehicle propulsion styles by a motoring public.
Feeling negatively affected, those needing (wanting?) to burn gasoline and not wishing to pay what they see as 'excessive' prices for gas, do move further afield to where prices are seemingly better (and by doing so causing even more distress for the (i.e. Tsawwassen) shop owner trying to dispense gasoline). It's not hard to see the process, repeated, as self-defeating (causes any shop to eventually close).
Driving further for one's 'gas' I expect, either becomes a fact of one's motoring life or the simple act of 'filling up' at home (electrically - 120V) will become the reality of choice as it did for our family when I/we had had enough of feeling victims to high gas prices, or aging car starting to cost us in repairs, and so, we bought a used electric vehicle three years ago).
Never having to look back, ‘checking the oil' is now a thing-of-the-past.
I can advise checking your (run-away?) costs for fuel per kilometer (and maintenance) is the cost less than two cents a km (electric). And don't forget maintenance costs... (about negligible with electric propulsion - fewer parts to wear out).
Bill Hamilton
