Price at the pump here on this island in western Canada for "gasoline" produced and refined in this country is approximately $ .85 Cdn. a litre or about $2.40 US per US gallon, if my conversions are correct. Maybe very cheap by European or NZ standards, but then considering the vast distances we have to transport goods and services in this country, as opposed to the comparitively miniscule distances regarding transport in the UK, for instance, it is a very expensive commodity in deed. Diesel does bring the price down somewhat.

But it still makes for other very expensive commodities at many levels here, to keep this economy rolling along.

A large chunk of the Canadian price per litre is provincial and federal tax.

US gal., as opposed to imperial gal., is equivilent to 3.7854 litres