What Are You Paying For Premium Fuel

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I don’t pay a lot of attention when selecting the premium fuel option while riding but a buddy sent me this photo yesterday from the Shell in Cobourg.
1.20 for Regular and 1.86 for Premium seems rather excessive to me. I thought maybe it was a mistake but apparently this is normal pricing for this station. Is a 66c increase over regular normal these days?
 

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Where am it’s $700/drum ( can’t buy it by the litre.)
That works out to $3.41/l.
 
I have noticed in my travels that regular to premium gas prices are not related to each other.
I think regular gas price is more competitive because of demand.
Lets face it, how many motorcycle or sports car people decide to take the bus to save money?
Regular gas in Deseronto is $1.00 a litre and premium runs $1.33
 
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Hardwrkr13 said:
I don’t pay a lot of attention when selecting the premium fuel option while riding but a buddy sent me this photo yesterday from the Shell in Cobourg.
1.20 for Regular and 1.86 for Premium seems rather excessive to me. I thought maybe it was a mistake but apparently this is normal pricing for this station. Is a 66c increase over regular normal these days?
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Definitely seems an extreme differential to me. Yesterday the Shell on Thickson Road at 401 in Whitby was 1.31 for regular, 1.64 for 91 and whoopee I saved 3 cents for using my CAA card.
 
Used to be a 10-15c/L spread from regular to now premium.

They know that premium car buyers are going to pay premium gas prices…zero incentive to go low so they’ll gouge us to the max.

Only my Scrambler needs premium in my fleet…thankfully.
 
I can't recall what Costco premium was but it was IMO significantly higher than regular. The Rodeo Drive station shows $.1219 Regular, $1.449 Premium, a 19% hike. Diesel at mainline stations can be all over the place as well.

Octane boosters are available, STP @ Canadian Tire 2 X 155ml for $16.94 tax in. Treats up to 79 litres per bottle so you get up to 158 liters of home brew premium. DIY adds $0.107 per liter at the minimum rate. For thwak, savings could be as high as $0.20 a liter at the minimum boost.

The CTC site didn't have boost charts.

A 25 to 30 percent hike at the pump is more likely based on marketing hype and lower turn over.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
I don’t pay a lot of attention when selecting the premium fuel option while riding but a buddy sent me this photo yesterday from the Shell in Cobourg.
1.20 for Regular and 1.86 for Premium seems rather excessive to me. I thought maybe it was a mistake but apparently this is normal pricing for this station. Is a 66c increase over regular normal these days?
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Thirty cent spread here, but it gets updated less than regular. $1.37.9 is from ten a.m.

Regular right now is 1.06.9 at Shell where CAA gets three cents off.

For regular I find that the price drops about ten cents from morning until night. Premium I normally put in a gas can after running a dollar or two in the Odyssey’s tank.
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I remember paying 2.29 a few years ago in northern Ontario just before the Manitoba border.
 
Spread at costco prior to covid was pretty consistently 0.10 when most stations were >0.20. Spread at costco now is 0.20 or more.

I don't think I've seen a 0.66 spread at any normal gas station. Ultramar in Cobourg used to have decent prices but the last few times I checked, it was nothing special. Esso at 28 and 401 was much cheaper than surrounding area last time I went through.
 
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Spread at costco prior to covid was pretty consistently 0.10 when most stations were >0.20. Spread at costco now is 0.20 or more.

I don't think I've seen a 0.66 spread at any normal gas station. Ultramar in Cobourg used to have decent prices but the last few times I checked, it was nothing special. Esso at 28 and 401 was much cheaper than surrounding area last time I went through.
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When I used to want to wake up at 6am, and go to Costco / Walmart at Dixie and Dundas the premium fuel was the same as a normal gas station normal fuel.

Haven't been in ages because I just don't feel like waking up that early.
 
66c spread seems very excessive. Could this be more gas shenanigans. It was 30c spread during the pandemic, and 10c before all that nonsense. I think here in ONT they permanently removed or lowered the gas tax, maybe it was only for Reg.
 
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66c spread seems very excessive. Could this be more gas shenanigans. It was 30c spread during the pandemic, and 10c before all that nonsense. I think here in ONT they permanently removed or lowered the gas tax, maybe it was only for Reg.
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Years ago people complained about the daily yo-yo prices on gas throughout the day so they stabilized them....at the higher rate.
 
nobbie48 said:
Years ago people complained about the daily yo-yo prices on gas throughout the day so they stabilized them....at the higher rate.
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Have they, prices start higher during the day, different price at night. Just a different yo yo.

So we have daily yo yo pricing, along with higher premium spread, I'm sure there is another trick in there someplace.
 
Ballers be buying premium. Nothing I own gets that much love. A buddy thinks Hammonds on 19 might still sell av gas and that I should be splashing some in the DragWing....
 
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Years ago people complained about the daily yo-yo prices on gas throughout the day so they stabilized them....at the higher rate.
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East Coast (and maybe bc) took that to the extreme. East Coast rate is fixed for a week or a month. It is fixed at the highest rate they expect for that period. Moronic law.
 
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The mini gets premium as it's high strung. Most bikes for a similar reason. Now that ethanol can't be avoided, everything else gets regular.
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Local Reservation sells Marine 91 (non-eth). I keep 6 full 5gal cans full of it at home at all times to run in everything except the cars.
 
I used to always fill my bikes with 91 from Shell. Their 91 was more expensive than other stations, but worth it (to me) because it was ethanol-free. Now that it no longer is, I just fill from Petro or CT for the discounts and cash back if I'm mid-ride, otherwise Costco if I'm filling up pre/post-ride. Shell seems to have kept their 91 prices high.
 
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