Ontario’s NDP says it will lower gasoline prices ‘right away and permanently.’ We asked experts if that’s possible

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Soaring gas prices, now topping $2 per litre across much of Canada, have emerged as a central topic on the Ontario election campaign trail, with the three main parties pledging different plans for relief.

While the Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals have promised to slash the provincial gas tax, the New Democrats are taking a different approach. But will it work?

What the NDP is proposing — putting a price ceiling on gas — effectively already exists in the four Atlantic provinces. The experience of those provinces shows that regulating gas markets does not necessarily manifest in lower prices at the pumps, said Trevor Tombe, economist at the University of Calgary.found rising gas prices have hit drivers in Atlantic Canada harder than in Ontario. Between Jan. 1 and May 12, pre-tax gas prices jumped more in Newfoundland, P.E.I.

The NDP says its price ceiling would limit the profit margins wholesaler and retailers can charge for gas — but such profit margins are already determined by a competitive market which follows closely what’s happening in the United States, said Dan McTeague, fuel price observer and president at Canadians for Affordable Energy.

“If you actually try to lower prices,” Cross said, “what’s going to happen is all the gasoline will just leave Ontario because the gasoline will get a better price in Michigan or Quebec.”commissioned by the Ontario Energy Board found regulating gas prices can “fundamentally alter the competitive dynamics of a market,” including sometimes in “ways that may not necessarily benefit consumers.”

Instead of regulating prices, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford and Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca have both promised to cut the province’s gas tax by 5.7 cents a litre for at least six months beginning July 1.

 

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Lies and more lies

Another article: Oil companies' profits are WAY up e.g. Suncor profit up almost 400% Solution 'tax away some of the enormous profits pouring into energy companies and use that money to support those hit hardest'

Andrea is feeling desperate to come up with this whopper of a promise.

Price of Gas explained: * Crude oil is up 75% in a year, a global problem * Carbon Tax: yes, 11 cents per litre = small part of the increase * Yes, oil Company profits are up

When have the price is tax and taxed tax how could we fix this? The NDP think their voters will fall for any little crumb for free.

This is only because of the war. Gas prices isn't anything that the government needs to regulate... it had no reason to even go up!

NDP is. Not going to win. Why does their view matter.. Anyways?

Yes you can regulate it, as Atlantic Can. regulates theirs & price changes are controlled by a Provincial Board...it prevents individual stations from gouging & price fixing, but if the $/barrel is overly inflated, it doesn't protect much, as the pump $ is set by that price.

Due to JustinTrudeau and POTUS, the world is on fire, war rages on, children are starving in America, completely open borders in America and Canada, gas prices soon to hit 3 bucks a litre, Canadian citizens locked up in an open air prison, crime is unstoppable in USA. Thanks!

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the guys in the trucks paid 400 grand whte guys ya thats already going to welfare and retards now his gas is too retards not going to buy nothing thats int he trucks nice stuff or nothin this is fkn bad this is crazy there no reason gas is up to make up for what? this is hate

so ford wont pay tax for bcs of what im sayin is corect why shld he pay for retards and sht . and then there just foul peoples like and then they still didn even send the ai robots i dont know like all the welfare is what gas goes too disability and welfare not normal ppl

then if u sya govy stupid hit them then thats stupid too then if you say let us do it they like no its so stupid then ford still sels trucks ruin ppl credit their inhertiences then they say its protection for us from whte ppl is why like but then ford like dont pay tax to govy

tits taxed before it cm to my pump then the txes goes back to govy ya i got to keep ten grand off the ceba meh but govy doesnt realy help business it helps retards and sht so they flpd hard its jst goes for rtrds jello and then the nurses died dr died in ttc in covid too tons

I thought everyone loved capitalism? What are they complaining about?

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