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Originally Posted by GGG
So doubling down on no evidence then. Your Occam requires a conspiracy usually that’s not the simplest explanation.
Your second argument is that the trucks supplying gasoline to stations burn more diesel then the company sells to the public. Any way to provide any support to the assertion.
Why are the Kamloops gas stations involved in the Alberta retail conspiracy and Vancouver isn’t?
I should clarify though; my main contention is that there is no evidence that the absence of the Gas Tax is in anyway related to the current gas price in Calgary. So even if you can prove the grand price fixing conspiracy that raises prices before long weekends you would still need to show that this is happening because of the gas tax room given by Kenny.
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Of course I am doubling down on no evidence. So are you. You haven't provided one link with evidence, only speculation. Tombe even admits he actually has no answer for this, he just makes sure to insulate himself from any libel accusing companies of acting illegally.
I didn't breakdown my answers or thoroughly investigate anything, I am just giving plausible explanations. I can't prove any price fixing in this specific situation, but I know it happens and companies get caught doing it, so its not some unfathomable conspiracy to believe it might be happening here.
Do I have any numbers to back up the difference in diesel? nope, but I haven't seen any either. But I do know my delivery fuel surcharges fluctuate with diesel prices so it is safe to assume that a fuel retailer using a 3rd party truck to deliver fuel would also charge based on their costs. Keep them low, delivery costs are low.
I have a hard time thinking that some ethanol pricing issue affected only Alberta (and Kamloops) at the exact same time as every other province was seeing gasoline prices go down. It continued to the exact point where there was 0 tax rebate flow through, and then, suddenly a few days after the differential is identified prices drop and the tax flow-through is back to 10 cents today. How very convenient.
Could there be other reasons? Sure, but I haven't seen any actual evidence of those either.
If you don't think occam applies, then I can use "if there's smoke, there's fire" or "if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck.. its a duck".