About Vancouver gas prices
Vancouver consistently posts the highest big-city gas prices in North America, and the reasons are mostly invisible at the pump: the Pacific Northwest wholesale rack, a thin supply chain (the Parkland refinery in Burnaby covers only about a quarter of regional demand, with the rest arriving via the Trans Mountain pipeline and U.S. imports), and the steepest tax stack in Canada — an 18.5¢/L TransLink levy, 6.75¢ BCTFA, and 1.75¢ provincial motor fuel tax add up to 27¢/L before GST. The Vancouver rack typically runs 15–25¢/L above Edmonton, so retail prices here move sharply on refinery maintenance, pipeline news, and West Coast supply squeezes.
The point of this site is to flatten that information asymmetry for ordinary drivers. Instead of guessing whether the Chevron on your way home is a good deal, you can see exactly where it sits in the city ranking, what it charged a week ago, and whether there's a cheaper option a kilometre out of your way. We focus on Vancouver and the surrounding Metro region — Burnaby, Surrey, Richmond, the Tri-Cities, the North Shore, and Langley — so the comparisons are practical for the people actually filling up here, not abstract national averages. Surrey's King George Boulevard and Scott Road corridors are reliably the cheapest big market in Metro Vancouver, while the North Shore is usually the priciest.