Editor:
Re: Gas prices driving motorists south, April 17
While I understand that people are frustrated with the high cost of gasoline and that people have a right to go to the U.S. to buy cheaper gas, I do sometimes wonder why people criticize the governments, provincially and federally, because of taxes levied on Canadian petrol.
In Canada we enjoy the services of Medicare, the social programs that make up the civility that is so very different than the U.S.
Those Canadians travelling to the U.S. for cheaper gas (less taxes in U.S.) have no problem accessing the universal Medicare of Canada. So many of us paying taxes in B.C. and Canada, would see the statement “This is price gouging,” to be somewhat self-serving.
There are many factors outside of taxes which account for high gas prices, including no new refineries in Western Canada in over 50 years.
So let’s not pay the carbon tax and allow our grandchildren to suffer the effects of climate change. And let’s get milk and cheese cheaper even though these American products are full of antibiotics.
For me, I would rather support our Abbotsford dairy farmers. The old statement of people who “know the price of everything, but do not know the value of anything,” comes to mind.
Joe Whitman, Surrey