The Esso on Memorial Drive in Clarenville @ 137.9 The Esso on Newfoundland Drive in St. John's @ 129.4/ltr Reports are coming out this morning that the price of gas will be going down by up to 4 cents a liter tomorrow in the weekly Thursday gas price setting shell game. So WAIT AND BUY YOUR GAS TOMORROW!! But my concern about gas goes beyond un-explainable yo-yoing of gas prices. My concern lies in that fact that there is almost a 10 cent a liter difference between the price of gas in Clarenville and the price of gas in east end St. John’s. No doubt we have the Costco Corporation to thank for driving their immediate competitors’ prices down, but when the difference is sustained for such a long period of time it gets me thinking that there is something wildly wrong and sinister about gas pricing in this province and more particularly, in our town. If gas companies can afford to keep their prices significantly lower in St. John’s for such an extended period of t
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