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Old 03-18-2022, 03:36 PM   #469
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Horgan has said before that he has no plans to suspend the gas taxes, and he has again said so in the Global News article. So it really makes me wonder what tools he has access to that can reduce retail prices.

During the worst days with that 30L gas rationing, retail gas prices definitely remained steady during the rationing period. But it wasn't clear to me what the gov actually did to cause prices to hold still. Was it just a matter of arbitrarily reducing demand? Or was there something else that I am not aware of?
They put in rules restricting gas stations from actually raising prices. Maybe we'll get something like that again...

I don't know, it is tough. What is an effective policy we could realistically implement to reduce gas prices when crude is traded in a global market?
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