Drivers in British Columbia’s largest city, Vancouver, pay the highest prices for gas at the pump in North America, data from GasBuddy has revealed. The average price per gallon of gasoline sells for US$4.77 (C$1.62 per liter), Bloomberg quotes GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst Dan McTeague as saying. And things might just get worse. British Columbia is heavily dependent on fuel imports from neighbor Alberta, home of the oilsands, which is now threatening to turn the taps off or at least reduce the flows of fuel considerably in a bid to make B.C. change its mind about the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion. For now, B.C. is staying strong, but things may change if prices at the pump surge to uncomfortable levels. After all, B.C. gets as much as 60 percent of its gasoline from Alberta and Albertan officials have repeatedly said that they are not making idle threats. Indeed, […]