bats

Prices vary here, more expensive nearer the 401. Pioneer and ultramarine are usually cheapest. The gas stations on the three reserves all sell cheaper gas but it does have to be on or near your route to make it worthwhile.

scrubbedexpat091

We only the big boys in town other then the native owned one right before town. 2 Petro Canada, 1 Chevron, 2 Husky.

orly

Our car is 1.6l. We drive greater distances and insurance costs more here.
My car back home was 1.3 but I don't think it was really much more efficient overall. The savings were in driving low distance and insurance.

To be honest if it was just me I'd get rid of the car. We probably pay about $450/mth total for insurance, gas, maintenance etc. I'd be able to function perfectly well with an $85 monthly bus pass and renting a car on a weekend occasionally if I had some longer distance to travel or was going to Big-Flatpack-Furniture-Store Incorporated for example. Of course, my wife sees things differently...

Former Lancastrian

TBH I need a car for work as due to my hours public transit is not available all of the time even though I live in a decent sized city. A taxi one way would cost almost $50 and I work a 4 on 4 off so just one set of shifts would set me back $200. Taking transit back the other way and still paying $10 for 4 trips.
Of course we all become a bit lazier and if the car is on the drive or in the garage we tend to use it for journeys we could take transit or god forbid even walk

magnumpi

Ha ha ha ha

W A L K ???

Some places here don't even have sidewalks

scrubbedexpat091

Up until November 2013, I hadn't owned a car in 5 years, I had been using transit, and walking, and it was hard at first, but once I got used to it, it became the norm...

Now we have a car simply for necessity, not a large city, transit is very limited, and no real way around not having a car as the transit is just not worth even using. Luckily its not a large town, so a tank of gas can last us 2 weeks if we don't go to Vancouver, so its not so bad, but if we had to fill up weekly or more often, I'd dump the car again.

I did buy a bike though and have been biking to work, work is only 2km away and on bike I can take a short cut, and its really not any faster by car.

rivingtonpike

Gas on the Island is still $1.39.9. I thought it might go back down after the Easter Break but - no.

Gozit

Err.. It was 99 cents a litre in Pt Huron, MI last time we filled up the truck on the way home from florida

Its about 1.30 /l here in the GTA

Of course I could be paying €1.46 a litre in Malta. ($2.21 CAD / 1.19GBP) Also bad.

scrubbedexpat091

Went up to 146.9 today, first time ever I have had to pay over 70 dollars for a tank of gas, luckily it will last about 2 weeks, so its not frequent but I feel bad for those commuting to Whistler for work at these prices.

I could not imagine owning a large vehicle with a large tank if it cost 73 dollars for a Sunfire..

rivingtonpike

Coo! that's the highest I've heard of. Still holding at $1.39.9 here. Hoping for a drop soon

haggis88

127.9c at the Shell by my place

of course I use premium, which is 142.9c

costs me $100 or so to fill and that normally sees me 600km

tallperson

It was $1.53 here this week but has now gone down a bit.

dbd33

Don't you have some sort of Asian granny box thingy? Surely it'll work on regular or less.

haggis88

yeah, however it really doesn't like regular...and after reading a few posts on the owners forums, it appears its down to the Ethanol content of the regular grade gas

it actually tells you this in the owners manual, you're advised not to use gas with a high ethanol content (>10%). Regular 87 at the pumps here says it's 15% ethanol

when running it on regular, i get intermittent Check Engine Lights for catalytic convertor efficiency, but no such trouble when it's running on premium!

i was led to believe a few other Japanese manufacturers suggest this too, however, I can only comment on Honda/Acura!

dbd33

Ah. I understand that my Ford has some sort of octane analyser so that, while it'll run on regular, it'll run more throbily on "weekend gas". I don't know though if it's disturbed about ethanol content, I suppose not because no lights are blinking at me.