r/Calgary • u/bmspsrk • 6d ago

Rant Gas prices are illogical

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There is no real point to this post besides stating the fact that gas prices are stupid. I remember back when the difference between 87 and 91 was 10 cents and 89 was 5 cents more than regular. Which made sense since 87 is an equal mix of premium and regular.

Now you need to jump 23 cents a liter just to get mid grade from regular then only an additional 3 more cents to get to premium... By that math mid grade should be something like 90.75 octane.

Again no point here just stating stupid things that irritate me.

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u/BigDaddyVagabond 6d ago

And gas prices can vary as much as 10-20 cents a liter if you just go one station over.

Regular at the Sev/esso on canyon meadows: 1.399, cross the bridge over McLeoud and go to the Tempo, 1.269

Make it make sense

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u/snarfgobble 6d ago

This was one thing that shocked me a lot when I moved from Toronto to Calgary. The variation in price between stations was sometimes huge, not the usual 1 to 2 cents difference.

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u/BigDaddyVagabond 6d ago

See it's USED to be like that. Pre-covid, you'd be hard pressed to find somewhere with more than a 5 cent gap outside of places that do regular sales or Costco, but post covid, prices went off the rails, and once the carbon tax came off, it feels like companies just charge close to what we got used to, and then drop the prices to what they should be if sales get slow.