B.C. preps 'fuel transparency' bill to track gas price gouging

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Proposed legislation expected to force oil and gas companies to hand over confidential data on gas supply and pricing.

VICTORIA — The B.C. government is drafting legislation that will require oil and gas companies to hand over confidential data on gasoline supply and pricing, so provincial regulators can better understand whether the public is getting gouged at the pumps.

“What we’re considering is they would be required to report in a prescribed form, so it would be comparable, managed data. They would have to make that publicly available at regular intervals, monthly or something like that. Nothing has been firmed up.” Similar legislation exists in Washington state and California. In California, refiners, producers, transporters, marketers and pipeline operators have to report their product volumes and sources as often as weekly. In Washington, the government produces quarterly gasoline reports and fuel trend documents using publicly available data.

 

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The gouging is the taxes on fuel... be transparent on the tax and you will see who the crooks are. Please investigate that

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