Gas Prices: A New Concept

I don’t know of any other product that bounces around in terms of price, as does the cost of gasoline (or as you say in Europe,  petrol.)   Can you imagine showing up at the post office and finding the cost of mailing a letter fluctuates radically from day to day?

Wednesday, July 1st was the Canadian equivalent of the 4th of July in the U.S., and the price went up 10 cents per litre (or, U.S., liter) the day before the holiday — that’s like a 40 cent per gallon increase for you Americans — and then went down eight cents the next day after the holiday.

So I’m thinking, if you go to a Chinese buffet they have a lunch price of $7.99, but you can pay as a high as $15.99 (around here, anyway) for dinner on Saturdays and Sundays.  We know that movies are cheap on Tuesdays, and there’s a higher price on the weekend.   We know the hair salon charges more on Fridays.    So since we know the gas companies are going to gouge us on weekends and holidays, why not make it official?

Why not post the weekday price, the weekend price and the holiday price?   It’s not like there will be huge lineups when the price is low — we already know it’s going up on those occasions.

But it would be an admission on their part of exactly what they are doing.