Gas prices

STONE – Some solutions for immediate relief from high gasoline prices

May 13, 2022 // 1 Comment

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson GAS PRICES are once again skyrocketing across the province and there is no end in sight, thanks to the NDP government’s refusal [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – As we curse high gas prices, the planet is thanking us

May 9, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AS USELESS AS IT MAY BE to complain about high gasoline prices, nothing will stop us from doing it anyway. And no matter how much we [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Here’s what we should all do with our gas-price rebate cheques

April 5, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LAUGHING at Premier John Horgan’s suggestion that electric-vehicle owners donate their gas-price rebate cheques to [Continue]

MILOBAR – NDP government’s gas-price ‘rebate’ is too little, too late

April 4, 2022 // 3 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson COMING FROM SOMEONE who publicly declares, “I don’t understand this affordability stuff,” it’s no surprise that Premier [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Maybe we shouldn’t complain so much about gas rebates

March 28, 2022 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. GIVING DRIVERS NOTHING to lighten the burden of high gas prices would have been politically smarter than the token rebates offered [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – Premier shrugs and does nothing about high gas prices

March 11, 2022 // 1 Comment

Excerpt from a debate in the B.C. Legislature on Thursday, March 10, 2022 between Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Minister [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The worst is yet to come for the price at the pump in B.C.

March 9, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MAYBE THE SKEPTICS who insisted that what happens in Ukraine has nothing to do with the price of gas in Kamloops will think again. The price [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE: When will the premier do something about price at the pumps?

March 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, March 7, 2022. P. Milobar:The Premier seemed to take decisive and quick action in this budget when he made sure that he was [Continue]

EDITORIAL – What happens in Ukraine really does affect Kamloops gas prices

February 1, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ANYONE WHO DRIVES may be forgiven for being skeptical that tensions in Ukraine are keeping gas prices high in Kamloops. It seems ridiculous [Continue]

McQUARRIE – What if we’ve got this whole carbon-pricing thing wrong?

December 15, 2019 // 3 Comments

WHAT IF, HORROR OF HORRORS, we’ve got this whole carbon-pricing thing wrong? And what if many of those who don’t believe in climate change are actually more concerned [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Gas-price report provides a few answers but no solutions

September 3, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE not to notice that gas prices in Kamloops jumped by a dime just in time for the Labour Day long weekend. According to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Don’t expect too much from the gas-price inquiry

July 17, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I’M NOT GETTING MY HOPES UP for the hearings that get underway today on gasoline prices in B.C. I’ll be surprised if the inquiry [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Alberta’s faulty pipeline gambit

May 17, 2019 // 1 Comment

THE ALBERTA GOVERNMENT SAYS that if only B.C. would allow a second pipeline to be built, our gasoline prices would go down. If only it were true. The new pipeline will not [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Seven in 10 British Columbians support gas-price cap

May 17, 2019 // 1 Comment

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE May 17, 2019 – As the price of gasoline begins its high summer season, painful increases at the pump are causing some road warriors enough heartburn [Continue]