I filled up the gas tank in Mitchell the other day for $1.21.4 per litre. When I got back home to Stratford, I noticed the price at our pumps here is $1.25.9. Today I was in London and shock of shocks, the price was $1.18.8 at one station, a little higher at others. Still $1.25.9 in Stratford.
Why is Stratford’s gasoline more expensive than almost everywhere else around us? Some people might see something sinister at work but I don’t. Stratford’s gas costs us more because it is better gas, plain and simple. It smells much more gassy than the gas these other towns sell and it is much yellower, a purer, gold-like hue that the others lack. It is also much more liquidy and flows so much easier when you are pumping it into your tank.
And best of all, it performs so well. Where my car might make it to Kingston and back to London on a tank of London gas, a tank full of Stratford gas would probably get me from London to Kingston and back.
So I am happy to pay more for my gasoline. As my Dad always said, you get what you pay for.
Thanks Stratford gas stations. Two thumbs up! (Up what, I won’t mention.)
©2013 Jim Hagarty
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