Who pays most for gas?

Everyone likes to whine about pain at the pump. But which cities are hurt the most?

REGINA — Canadians have plenty of statistical validation for the gas pains they have been feeling.

An online listing of retail gas prices produced this week by gasbuddy.com says, that of the 5,597 North American markets surveyed, all of which had more than five gas stations, the priciest 242 are all in Canada.

Regina-based Gasbuddy.com is a family of websites that watches, in real time, prices at pumps all over North America, using volunteer spotters. Because so many American cities were being surveyed, prices were converted to American dollars per US gallon from Canadian dollars and litres.

The 10 highest prices on the continent were all in the lower mainland of B.C., and ranged from an average of $5.296 in Delta down to $5.204 in nearby Coquitlam. There was another cluster of high prices in Quebec. Outside of those two provinces, the most expensive gas was pumped at Hearst in northern Ontario.

The most expensive gas in Alberta was in Fort McMurray, which ranked 212th on the list at $4.676. Calgary clocked in at $4.103, good for 341st spot, while Edmonton fared better at $4.059 in 383rd place.

The lowest prices of all were along the coasts of South Carolina and Virginia — low-tax states with access to tankers carrying fuel from refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast — the lowest average prices being in Danville, Va., at $3.089.

The cheapest Canadian gasoline was in Spruce Grove, at $4.04, good for a ranking of 404th.