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Opinion: Gas is cheap in B.C.

Hear me out
gas pump
Fuel prices in Metro Vancouver right now are actually less than the global average per litre, which is $1.78 CDN

With Vancouver gas prices set to reach their lowest point in 2022 this week, we're now at the incredibly odd place where we're thankful to pay $1.55 per litre for the stuff.

Some of us are old enough to remember the days when $.60/litre felt like literal highway robbery. Still younger drivers might even recall a time when the price was less than a buck, and we're all collectively moaning about the fact that it isn't anymore.

Yet our fuel prices right now are actually less than the global average per litre, which is $1.78 CDN, so it could be said that gas is cheap here. Heck, I guess I'll say it.

We've got cheap gas, folks.

As an exercise in thankfulness, I'd like to offer you a look at 10 countries that have some of the highest gas prices in the world right now.

Fill 'er up with these average prices over the last seven days, and be sure to bookmark our gas price tracker that shows you the lowest prices at individual stations in Vancouver:

Hong Kong - $4.05 CDN/litre

Central African Republic - $3.28 CDN/litre

Iceland - $3.07 CDN/litre

Barbados - $2.90 CDN/litre

Israel - $2.81 CDN/litre

Greece - $2.79 CDN/litre

Norway - $2.77 CDN/litre

Monaco - $2.76 CDN/litre

Finland - $2.75 CDN/litre

Denmark - $2.72 CDN/litre

Source: Global Petrol Prices