Dealing with gasoline prices

To all the good folks whining and complaining about gas prices on Facebook, Twitter and The Gazette Letters page, I’m going to make things very simple:

You have two choices. The first is reactionary and ultimately futile, the other is proactive, and is really your only constructive choice.

1) Bring some pots and pans down to your local gas station and stage a protest. I wish you luck in your boycott of the largest, most powerful multinational corporations on Earth. Let me know how that works out for ya!

2) Do everything within your means to reduce your/ your family’s dependence on fossil fuels. Maybe it means moving closer to work, trading in for a more economical car, insulating your home, and so on. You probably already know what measures you can take.

So what are you waiting for? Roberto Garcia

Montreal

Many letter-writers have recently commented on the outrageous price for gasoline, in Montreal, on Wednesday morning, at $1.534 /L, while comparing that to prices in Ontario.

For the record, in La- chute, at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, at the Crevier Gas Station, I paid $1.316 /L.

To explain the difference, I believe that there are oil wells in Lachute; I believe that Lachute has oil refineries to convert that oil to vehicular gasoline; and, I believe that the transportation costs to bring that gasoline from Lachute to Montreal account for the difference in cost. We are not fools in Montreal; we fully accept that there definitely is neither corruption nor collusion in the Montreal gasoline market. Robert Marcogliese

Montreal