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The thing that really gets me is I always try to buy at Canadian retailers as much as possible. All the manufactures base our pricing on US dollars. This makes buying from China more and more enticing, especially with their low shipping rates...
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The thing that really gets me is I always try to buy at Canadian retailers as much as possible. All the manufactures base our pricing on US dollars. This makes buying from China more and more enticing, especially with their low shipping rates...
Pretty much. With the lower prices of fuel, you don't see shipping getting any cheaper. Although oddly, I noticed the price of diesel was still $1.20 (a few weeks ago).
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Old 01-31-2015, 05:36 PM
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The thing that really gets me is I always try to buy at Canadian retailers as much as possible. All the manufactures base our pricing on US dollars. This makes buying from China more and more enticing, especially with their low shipping rates...
The RMB follows the USD, not the Canadian dollar. Would not be surprise to see 1.35 soon
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Went to TD downtown to exchange for US. I'm going to Hawaii next week. The exchange is at 1.31. Wtf!!!!
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in canada were paying $0.50+ tax on every litter of gas we buy
if China release 10-20% Of their money out of china bank USD will be worthless
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in canada were paying $0.50+ tax on every litter of gas we buy
Some places way out east are but this is not true for most of Canada. In Alberta we pay 10 cents federal flat tax, 9 cents provincial gas tax and 5% GST. BC has a higher provincial/carbon tax of about 21 cents. So about 23 cents and 35 cents per liter respectively.
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Best advice I can give anyone that buys regularly in USD and pays by bank transfer. Buy a futures contract on USD.

Drop me a line if you want to know how to do it.

Fyi - only worth it if the currency is ascending and or you need to fix your rates for price lists.

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if China release 10-20% Of their money out of china bank USD will be worthless

China and the U.S. got each by each other's balls. One cannot do anything to upset the other. For China to flood the market with US dollars is just not smart and suicidal. China has real financial wealth and the U.S. has intellectual wealth.

Yes, there is still room to take advantage of the futures market
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The cost of crude was pushed down to strangle Russia. Once the crude goes back up, the USD will drop once again. This is crap, the USD is NOT worth this much.
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Thats more conjecture really.

The short version of the story goes like this: For much of the past decade, oil prices have been high — bouncing around $100 per barrel since 2010 — because of soaring oil consumption in countries like China and conflicts in key oil nations like Iraq. Oil production in conventional fields couldn't keep up with demand, so prices spiked.

BY 2014, OIL SUPPLY WAS MUCH HIGHER THAN DEMAND

But beneath the surface, many of those dynamics were rapidly shifting. High prices spurred companies in the US and Canada to start drilling for new, hard-to-extract crude in North Dakota's shale formations and Alberta's oil sands. Then, over the last year, demand for oil in places like Europe, Asia, and the US began tapering off, thanks to weakening economies and new efficiency measures.

By late 2014, world oil supply was on track to rise much higher than actual demand. A lot of unused oil was simply being stockpiled away for later. So, in September, prices started falling sharply.

As prices slid, many observers waited to see whether OPEC, the world's largest oil cartel, would cut back on production to push prices back up. (Many OPEC states, like Saudi Arabia and Iran, need higher prices to balance their budgets.) But at its big meeting last November, OPEC did nothing. Saudi Arabia didn't want to give up market share and refused to cut production — in the hopes that lower prices would help throttle the US shale boom. That was a surprise. So oil went into free-fall.

The oil price crash is now upending the global economy, with ramifications for every country in the world. Low prices are excellent news for oil consumers in places like Japan or the US, where gasoline is the cheapest it's been in years. But it's a different story for nations reliant on oil sales. Russia's economy is facing a potential meltdown. Venezuela is facing unrest and may default on its debt. Even better-prepared countries like Saudi Arabia could face heavy pressure if oil prices stay low.
 


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