Gas prices finally came
down a bit on the weekend.
In Montreal there are
two common extreme sports that just about everyone practices. One is
jaywalking. The other is buying gas. It's an art to buy gas at just
the right price in Montreal because the fluctuations in prices are
huge. The trick is to time the empty tank with the bottom of the
gyrations in price. If you miss it by an hour, you're out of luck
because the price has shot up 10 cents or more per litre.
A graph (thanks to
GasBuddy.com) of gas prices in Montreal over the last month
demonstrates the volatility of prices.
But in Edmonton prices
tend to be much more stable. The price drop on the weekend was the
first change in about 3 weeks or so. Here's a graph of Edmonton
prices over the last month.
The only trouble with
price stability is that people were getting pretty tired of paying
such high prices and were ready for the correction when it came. And
then a 4 cent drop was so welcome, no-one really complains much about
the fact that gas prices are still pretty lofty. At least by Edmonton
standards.
Here's a graph with
both Montreal and Edmonton on it for the last month.
So if it's excitement
one is after, extreme gas buying isn't an option in Edmonton.
And almost no-one
jaywalks.
