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The cost of gas has been volatile in recent years as markets react to world events, ... significant swings in gas prices are relatively rare. ... 1980. Price per gallon: $1.19.
Collectively, the provincial governments collect approximately $8 billion per year from excise taxes on gasoline and diesel. The federal taxes go into general coffers and help to fund a range of programs: $2 billion of the approximately $5 billion collected from federal excise taxes goes into the now permanent annual Gas Tax Fund for municipal ...
Despite having campaigned on tax cuts during the 1979 Canadian federal election, Joe Clark's first budget contained several measures that departed from that.The budget included an 18-cent per gallon tax increase on gasoline, a 10 percent tax increase tobacco products, and a corporate surtax amounting to 1 percent of their income taxes.
The National Energy Program (French: Programme énergétique national, NEP) was an energy policy of the Canadian federal government from 1980 to 1985. The economically nationalist policy sought to secure Canadian energy independence, though was strongly opposed by the private sector and the oil-producing Western Canadian provinces, most notably Alberta.
The national average price for a gallon of gasoline is a little more than $4.95, according to AAA. ... GOBankingRates mapped out a chronology of average gas prices for more than 90 years dating ...
The next year in 2011, as America was digging itself out of the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Recession, gas soared to $3.53 per gallon — or $4.75, when adjusted for inflation ...
As the biggest Canadian gas discovery since the 1970s and its richest gas project ever, the Shell-operated Caroline field stood out as a $10 billion resource jewel. Although classified as a gas field, in the lower-price environment of the day sulfur, liquids and other by-products from the gas promised to exceed the value of the natural gas itself.
By 2009 with natural gas prices at a long-term low, Alberta's economy was in poor health compared to before, although still relatively better than many other comparable jurisdictions. By 2012 natural gas prices were at a ten-year low and the Canadian dollar was highly-valued compared to the U.S. dollar, but then oil prices recovered until June ...