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Winnipeg gas prices are currently 97.9 yet Brandon is 107.9 except the Esso on the Highway which is 109.9 and i know people will say Winnipeg has more competition uses higher volumes of gas but Portage is 99.9 and even the CO-OP on highway 1 by Austin 70 kms east of Brandon is 99.9 they would not have the volume of sales like Brandon or the same amount of competition unless it costs 8 cents a litre  
more to deliver to Brandon than it does to Austin why the big price difference and it is just not Brandon it seems to be the entire southwest corner including Neepawa and Minnedosa

It is 108.9 in Carberry as well. Absolutely ridiculous how you can go to Austin which is 15 minutes away and it's 9 cents a liter cheaper.

Yes. 93.9.

That gas prices are entirely based on greed and not supply and demand at all.  
 
Brandon prices are higher because they CAN charge that. There are so many users there that just will not use less. The companies know that snowmobiles, boats, all the larger SUVS and trucks all need gasoline. They also know there are no real options for transit for many people, so it's a catch 22. They can get away with it because it is not viable for you to drive over border or to Winnipeg.  
 
Now where I live, it's a crazy different situation. I live within 5 minutes of a US border (and have a Nexus), so I can slip over for gas any time I like, and many people do. Cripes, the Nexus agents often don't even make you come to a stop at our borders, they simply wave you through because they know how long you were down for and why you were there. I also live literally less than a km from Surrey, where gas prices are usually 25c/l more - why? Because they have transit tax there where Langley does not. So you have gas stations side by side that will have vastly different prices at any given time. We also have a Costco, which keeps our local prices a bit lower.  
 
However, there is a phenomenon that baffles me how they get away with it at all - I pass six gas stations on my daily commute to work (which is less than 3km). In the morning, they spike the prices by a good ten to fifteen cents/litre. At night, driving past the same stores, they are down again. That is a total greedy "gouge of convenience".  
 
At least we have more options and we can shop around and plan for better gas prices, (which right now is hovering around 1.30/l) Brandon does not have that option. You guys would all have to stop filling your pleasure craft AND go on gas strikes en masse before you'd have any effect. They have you where they want you.

i very well know 2 weeks ago it was 99 in wpg an portage

as I need the gas and have no control over prices no matter what is said.  
 
I just go to my regular gas station and fill up.  
 
Taken it off my worry list; as it is long; one thing off is a good thing.

love to one day own an electric vehicle and not have to care what the gas price is. Then I wouldn't care if the price went up 0.15 just before the long weekend.

Fear that we may be stuck more or less with the status quo for a while. Despite their rhetoric governments have no interest in hurting the oil industry too much. They preach green but their intention is to continue to develop the fossil fuel industry further.

It’s been a while now brandon has been more. But the last time I seen anyone complaining on social media. All of a sudden brandon is the same as Winnipeg

Are we being naive thinking that the government will not allow the price of hydro to rise when they are losing all the revenue from lost gas sales.  
Sure they will get the difference from us somehow.