Yesterday, I succumbed to self-pity about a gastank fill-up that edged perilously close to a C-note. Contrarian regular Denis Falvey offers a dose of reality: We will never get off our dependance on gasoline until the cost of a gallon of the stuff is through the roof. That's what makes the alternatives affordable. I am told that Quebec is currently building the infrastructure necessary for electric cars, and has an $8,000 allowance for each person buying a Volt. Whether that is good or bad, do you think it would happen with gas at $0.50 a gallon? As long as fish caught off our coast can...

10 April, 2012

The outcome of a fill-up this morning at Spike and Margie's Irving at Boularderie Centre, NS. In my 50 years as a driver, the nominal price of gasoline has increased more than 22-fold. In real terms, after adjusting for the consumer price increase, the price has increased 2.94-fold....

09 April, 2012