[Newsbot]

Title: BC Ferries fuel surcharge set to double
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-11-25 22:45:03
Canadian

[Gunnair]

Yet another reason to remain Island bound.

[Hyack]

No more Bass fishing trips to Saltspring, no more trips up the West coast to Jordan river and Pt Renfrew. Don't forget to give yourselves another raise and year end bonus assholes....

[Freakinoldguy]

Gotta pay for Big Dave's the salary slaves pension somehow.

Just another hit to the island economy by a BC Liberal run quasi private corporation. Things like this ensure that tourists, and businesses stay on the mainland rather than moving to an Island no one can afford to travel to, which, I'm beginning to think is the whole sordid plan anyway.

[Canadian_Mind]

Again??? Jesus fuck.

I remember 5 years ago it would have cost about 50 total for the truck and 4 passengers, now it's 130.

Something needs to be done. Re-publicise the damned thing, make ferry employees government workers, and have the users pay for the cost of fuel and maintenance (as they would for their own vehicle driving the highway).

[QBall]

$1:

The company says its annual fuel cost was $45.9 million in 2003 and while it's reduced fuel consumption by about five per cent since then, it expects fuel costs this fiscal year could be over $120 million.

On the other hand BC Ferries has enough Petro Points that everyone on the Island can each receive a free jug of windshield washer fluid.

I don't know why they don't do away with the fuel surcharge BS and just increase fares across the board. We're getting a little tired of the shell game.

[ShepherdsDog]

Gunnair Gunnair:

Yet another reason to remain Island bound.

Of the 22 years that I lived there, I think that I left at most, once a year. Some years not even that often(mainly because my dad's pay as a LS and PO wasn't that great and it was mainly to Abbotsford, where my grandparents lived). Of course this isn't counting time away due to deployment or work that I did overseas while in university, as I didn't have to pay for transportation.

[BartSimpson]

Too bad BC Ferries won't cut a deal with Alberta about some of that awesome oil sands petrol!

[Freakinoldguy]

Bart, you may have hit on something there.

After trying to figure out how BC Ferries does it finances it just might be cheaper for them to build a pipeline from the Alberta Oil Sands to Duke Point where they could build a Refinery and process all the crude they need.

All costs in, it'd still be cheaper than running one of David Hahn's German disasters for a day.