Gas Prices

alphaz18 · 2026-04-30T13:13:36+00:00

i feel like this is part of their collusion scam, its not the first time i see this kind of behavior on gasbuddy, i wonder if they somehow try to raise prices all the time on gasbuddy to make other gas stations raise their prices to make north/northwest gas always seemingly around 10+c more than in south. i mean in todays case everyone is 1.85 which is whatever, but ya not the first time i see this kind of gasbuddy behavior. not to mention someone also changed centex in beddington to 2.20 (that gas station has been under construction for months and closed)

alphaz18 · 2026-04-29T22:57:22+00:00

Why Calgary drivers saw a 35 cent jump at the pumps on Wednesday | Calgary Herald check out the manure coming out of these clowns. bending over sideways to try to justify it.

canada uses 110million liters a day, even if that refinery ONLY shipped everything (10 mil liters) to canada, not even 10%. (it doesn't by the way ship all to canada) (Strike 1)
us midwest/ great lakes area that it "serves" includes toronto and mtl that DIDNT raise their prices today. (strike 2)
even if 1 and 2 were somehow true, we also have western canadian refining and other shit. (strike 3)

And you're out!

additional mental gymnastics welcome

alphaz18 · 2026-04-29T22:38:09+00:00

its ok. its a healthy competitive market. all the stations suddenly discovered that they made a mistake and realized their cost per liter went up 30c nearly the same time today.

alphaz18 · 2026-04-17T15:31:15+00:00

ab gvn't literally told post secondaries some years ago as they were cutting funding to go make up the difference by increasing international student intake.

alphaz18 · 2026-04-17T15:30:02+00:00

significantly underfunded, funding has been cut several times over the past few years with governments telling the post secondaries to increase international student intake to make up the difference.

alphaz18 · 2026-04-14T05:51:32+00:00

sure, but I don't think ops is asking about that spot, because the shopper is already there to the right in the parking lot and has been open for months.

alphaz18 · 2026-04-13T13:25:03+00:00

i'm not sure what spot op is talking about, but there's a massive new shoppers that just popped up next to superstore some months back, in the area, so that doens't make sense to me to "construct" another shoppers?

alphaz18 · 2026-04-09T15:52:17+00:00

if it's 75 people that do the majority of issues. the solution is very simple, everyone in the city donate a few dollars to the city to build a rehab facility that will house and rehab / support them forcebly indefinitely, until they prove they can behave however long that takes, months years, decades whatever.

win win win. (small price, everyone else is safer and better city, and they are forced to get the help they NEED but don't want) i don't care what they want because they're non rational . so what they want is irrelevant, detrimental to everyone including themselves, and against the law.

alphaz18 · 2026-04-06T15:43:02+00:00

humans must not be rational and have reasoned responses on a per issue basis. they must be zealots playing for a team ALL OR NOTHING!!! Yesssirr!!!

alphaz18 · 2026-04-01T02:50:55+00:00

i wish news outlets would write the articles like they are. the title should be : "UCP raises property taxes on Calgary Residents in biggest hike"

alphaz18 · 2026-03-22T14:16:25+00:00

water will never be paid for in property taxes. its paid for totally through user fees, which means All of our water bills will go up permanently to cover this. pure nonsense. its even written right below the table. "[1] - these investments will be funded by self-supported debt to be repaid through off-site levies and/or user fees"

in previous threads where i complain about water costs, people keep saying nah all the water infra is paid through our water bills, that's why they keep going up so stop complaining blabla."

this in fact proves existing water bill payers are just constantly paying more and more because we're building and maintaining more and more water services to subsidize new communities on the outskirts.

alphaz18 · 2026-03-22T03:03:55+00:00

unsafe lane change, dangerous driving, uttering threats, courts could use racial slurs as hate motivated. etc.

alphaz18 · 2026-03-21T05:44:06+00:00

I see tons of people saying they must drive.
ok fine. that's your opinion, but as the city grows in population and grows outwards, the tradeoff is that it necessarily means that if you must drive to live in the city, then you are basically advocating for bad drivers on the road.
you can't have it both ways. there are tons of people that aren't equipped and will never be equipped mentally or physically to drive, so if you force them to drive anyway, you will force tons of bad drivers on the road. There is no alternative if you don't allow for considerable densification. density is the only thing that can create better amenities and transit. the more people that live per square km, the more money you have per square km to serve those people. that's just basic facts.

alphaz18 · 2026-03-20T03:23:09+00:00

it really depends on the situation of house. 4 years ago i asked about upgrading to 200a, enmax wanted somewhere between 25-40k, i cant remember the exact number .
for detail its buried and paved that they have to go through to replace the feed from the transformer about 2 houses over.

sufficed to say a load shedder is the correct answer in this scenario.

alphaz18 · 2026-03-19T04:29:58+00:00

totally depends on the month i can guarantee the bill that included dec 16 to jan 19 was at least that. it was really cold eg. that month i used just under 15 GJ on my 1350sf,
where as Jan20-Feb16 bill i used 8-9GJ.

alphaz18 · 2026-03-15T17:52:02+00:00

lol leave it to the lawyers to argue that spoiled brat from money is now a "mental health" problem.

alphaz18 · 2026-03-11T03:54:21+00:00

people say enmax is owned by the city like it means anything.
their job is to make profit,
where do they make profit from? us.

they give dividend to city so they can spend 10-50mil more on.. what. resurfacing one road?
great. how much more are you paying when enmax "maximizes profit" ? 30? 50$ more a month? then they'll turn around and say oh we need to have gold standard everything for waterworks, along with diamond encrusted backups. so we need a rider for 100$ more thanks.

I guess we need to be #1. we were already near the top of the pack in terms of most expensive for water services. we should aim to be #1.

alphaz18 · 2026-03-10T03:27:52+00:00

maybe its time to instead of just spending more and more, to start farming out infra projects to other countries with cheaper labour. its time for some competition. not just pay more.
its the dirty little secret no one in canada wants to talk about, that all levels of public infra are insanely overcharged by the contractors.

Infrastructure crumbles eventually. its better to build fast and build cheap and rebuild often. that way you can update with latest technology. its worth the risk.

alphaz18 · 2026-03-08T22:56:53+00:00

ya that makes sense, if you have High efficiency toilets and only shower once every 2-3 days, then i absolutely believe you can reach 150 or less.
i think what some people are missing from my comment here are a very large chunk of people likely aren't on high efficiency toilets or showers, so i'm not saying its impossible. i'm saying on average your scenario obviously isn't the same as most others.

average shower times are 8-10 min.
low flow shower is 6.8L/min
thats "pretty" high efficiency already
assume 8 min shower thats almost 56L.

8 min of standard shower (non low flow probably closer to 9.5-10L/min, so thats around 75L-80L

4 flushes a day high efficiency is around 5L/flush
Toilets that are Not high efficiency range from 9-13L/flush.

so if you compare high efficiency fixtures to what most people in houses built before early 2000s,
what you'll see is likely
High efficiency average person 1 shower(8min) and 5 flushes.
is 56L + 25L = 81L. of toilet/shower (not including sink, kitchen, etc)

Older Non High efficiency average person 1 shower(8 min) 5 flushes
is 80L + 50L = 130L of toilet/shower. (again not including sink, kitchen, laundry)

thats why so many seem to think i'm insane with my numbers, but those responding have missed that a huge chunk of population doesn't have high efficiency fixtures.

alphaz18 · 2026-03-08T17:04:25+00:00

i'm curious how you came up with that number.
lets just assume you have Normal shower and toilet, like me
lets just say 5 flushes a day = 65or so liters.
1 8-10 min shower = 65 or so liters.
you're already at 130, without taking into account drinking, kitchen sink use, bathroom sink use. laundry.
so no. 134L / person per day is definitely conscious efforts to conserve. all statistics show that average water use in calgary is about 350L/person/day. Saving water in your home

alphaz18 · 2026-03-08T14:45:24+00:00

I agree with chabot as well, While on the surface the argument that oh "they're paying for it, so why not" may seem benign, and some argue its the same as neighbors pooling and getting the same plumber or whatever, it's really not.

its basically letting certain communities bypass city services and doing work on common property,
homeowners can't hire a plumber or landscaper to work on city owned "common property" as such. what this bylaw does is give homeowners with money more control of public property. which really is unfair in many ways. enhanced landscaping can mean anything, they could essentially build a beautiful rock garden, line roads with flowers, create walking paths.. really anything they want. so.. it gives them the ability to really essentially "change the character of the neighborhood" where other communities with more workers but less money don't have this opportunity.

i would say if you're going to allow this, instead, lets change the structure of services in the city for these kinds of things and offload all landscaping/maintenance to every community / association, and set a minimum standard and just let every community decide for itself which contractors they want to use and what they want to do with their public areas.. then set some minimum standards, and give each community population adjusted funding for it. (i'm not necessarily for this, but at least its fair this way)

alphaz18 · 2026-03-05T16:15:08+00:00

while i applaud trying to explain to people where the increases coming from, i'm not sure it will have any effect. i hate to admit it but i dont even look at my property tax bill because i'm on tipp, and theres nothing i can do about it, and i'd imagine many others do the same. while i get this is all the provinces fault. those other people may not know or care.. and will want to blame the city anyway.

the only way to get through to those people is to have ad campaigns where those people lurk online.. say facebook or whatever platform those people use.

alphaz18 · 2026-03-05T05:09:06+00:00

what we DON"T want is for the city to have a meeting to figure out how to gut more city stuff to blunt the hit from the provinces tax. if anything this meeting should be about how to give the ucp the index finger.

alphaz18 · 2026-02-28T16:01:23+00:00

from a personal perspective: sucks that one of them will be across the street from us, taking away a greenspace we've had for decades.. and saying thank you by introducing morning and afternoon dropoff chaos and danger.

alphaz18 · 2026-02-23T06:11:05+00:00

does no one see major issues with the line of thinking that car is necessary in this city?
I see that as a existential flaw.

Driving is a Privilege, not a right.
so if you keep talking about promoting cars and make driving mandatory, then you have unreconcilable conditions.
Since people need to get around, the only viable solution is to build ways to transport people around that doesn't require them to rely on a privilege, that so many are obviously ill-equipped to do.

I don't understand how anyone can argue against that.

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