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You don’t have to drive too far in Vancouver to see that price fixing is not going on among the dozens of retailers that sell hundreds of thousands of litres of gasoline on any given day.

On July 3, at 12th and Clark, the Shell station was selling a litre of regular gas for 154.9 cents, 15 cents more than the Super Save across the road. And those prices changed at least three times that day.

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On the morning of Canada Day — notorious for price jumps at the pump — the Super Save was selling for 26 cents a litre less than the Petro-Canada on Broadway in Kitsilano six kilometres away. By the end of that day, two Vancouver Chevrons and a Mobil had matched that lowest price of 128.9 cents a litre; then Super Save brought its price up to 139.9.

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Jass Dhillon, who works the gas bar at Super Save’s Clark Drive location, said gas there is always cheaper than at the Shell across the road. “Nobody goes there,” he quipped. “We always have lineups because this station is the cheapest of any of our locations.”