r/TheRealGrandePrairie

I want to preface this by saying this is not directly a political post. I just want to put things into perspective about the economic situation for oil for those who do not follow the stock market or geopolitics in general.

Brent Crude and WTI just hit $121 and $110 USD/Barrel respectively. In the Calgary area where I am, we saw a massive jump in price at the pump, some places $0.35/L up to $1.86/L. Let me explain why this is so significant …

The federal carbon tax before Carney stopped it (the commercial was stopped, not industrial) was roughly $0.17/L at the pump. The other federal tax Carney temporarily removed was the federal fuel excise tax of about $0.10/L. Our gas would actually be $2.13/L considering these two factors during COVID let’s say. The highest gas price ever (sources will vary) I believe was $1.92/L in Calgary. Without even considering the carbon tax, we would’ve hit the highest gas price ever today with the excise tax in place.

My point, do not let media gaslight you into thinking this is remotely normal or that it is purely because of this war. Oil crashes and of course pumps will delay lowering prices, but are more than happy to increase them quick when oil prices go up, they are absolutely gouging you. Me, I don’t personally see this war ending anytime soon.

Obviously, there is much deeper analysis I could go into, but I’ll keep it surface level for now. How does everyone feel about this jump in gas prices? And who knows if it will even stay.

Mounties have issued a warning after two people were assaulted on the walking trails in Muskoseepi Park in Grande Prairie this week.

Police in Grande Prairie are looking for information that will help them identify a person responsible for firing shots in a residential area.

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I am not from Grande Prairie and only moved here for work a handful of months ago. It was a transfer from same company where I lived to the company here.They offered higher pay and covered moving costs. They did this because they needed employees to help start off the company here that knew what they were doing.

However, the company had done lay-offs and unfortunately I was part of that till they can bring people back...

I'm still waiting for EI as its only been two weeks.

I've got 2 children and myself.

I'm just wondering where I can get free food in the city?

I did reach out to a church that is close to me and they did give us some bread but that was about it.

Do you have a food bank here? If so whats it called?

Where im from we would have random pantrys set up in different communities. Do you guys have that here? If so, can you name a few communities i can check out? I tried looking on Google for the foodbank and there's a couple different things listed and im unsure which one is what im looking for.

I also cannot stress this enough that I'am NOT looking for handouts and I genuinely want to utilize that things that are here for this very reason.

I just need to know where things are and I will go.

Cross-posted in the other GP group.