High-end, low-end gas prices both in Northeastern B.C.

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Another day and more new developments in the ever-changing local area retail gasoline price story.

Not only is the low end price in the province now in the Northeast, so is the high end price. In addition, what looked like the beginning of a five cent a litre increase in Fort St. John has disappeared.

The GasBuddy.com monitor still has the B.C. low end price at 83.9 cents a litre at the 7-eleven outlet in Dawson Creek, and five cents lower than the Prince George Costco price, which in recent times has had almost exclusive province-wide, low end price distinction.

In Fort St. John, the five cent a litre hike posted two days ago at the two Petro-Canada outlets has been dropped and they are now into the cities common posted price circle at 96.9 cents.

What’s in play here is not for us to assume, but listen again to what GasBuddy.com senior analyst Dan McTeague told us yesterday, and draw your own conclusions.

Elsewhere, the Gas Buddy survey this morning also shows the high end price in the province in Fort Nelson.

At a 117.9, the Esso and Fas Gas stations there, now top the monitor, which still has the B.C. average, at a 105.3 cents.

That remains the highest provincial average in the country, and still the only one over a dollar a litre.

However, the low-end average, still in Alberta, jumped three and a half cents yesterday to 84.2 cents.

There’s now survey confirmation, the retailer, economic downturn, public sensitively, referred to by McTeague, may have spread across the Peace Region, as the low end price in Grande Prairie is well below the Alberta average at 76 point nine.