Fuel Prices 2025

[the force]

Driving from Nanaimo to gold River tomorrow, can anyone recommend a decent priced station for either marine fuel or regular… need to put in about 250L. Prob CR?

 

[willydw]

Driving from Nanaimo to gold River tomorrow, can anyone recommend a decent priced station for either marine fuel or regular… need to put in about 250L. Prob CR?

Check out gas buddy.Looks like 155.9 for regular in Campbell River.Does not show Marine.

 

[M1SF1T]

Driving from Nanaimo to gold River tomorrow, can anyone recommend a decent priced station for either marine fuel or regular… need to put in about 250L. Prob CR?

Chevron at the corner of Redwood and Island Hwy has marine gas (marked premium), I was there today, it was $1.549. That's probably easiest for you just a couple blocks east when you get into Campbell River and then straight out for Gold River.

Also Esso across from the McCallum Park boat launch in case you're down that way.

 

[the force]

Thanks for the tip on Chevron, that’s a good price for marked premium.
Found out that the CR shell has flake ice so will likely just get regular there and fill coolers at the same time.
Boatland not open today.

 

[Doug]

I was at the Co-op gas bar yesterday and on the new pumps it read that marked gas is premium fuel (91)
I always though marked gas was mid grade (89)
Big difference in price too, marked $1.68 and none marked gas at $1.89.

 

[Srthomas75]

I think co-op switched their marked fuel to premium a couple years ago.

 

[M1SF1T]

I was at the Co-op gas bar yesterday and on the new pumps it read that marked gas is premium fuel (91)
I always though marked gas was mid grade (89)
Big difference in price too, marked $1.68 and none marked gas at $1.89.

Chevron and Esso in Campbell River also refer to their dyed fuel as "marked premium."

Which co-op were you at? I fueled up at the gas bar in Comox before I put my boat away and they explicitly told me that their marked was ethanol free, I notice your pump says up to 10% ethanol?

 

[SpringVelocity]

 

[M1SF1T]

I'm just repeating what the people at the station say.

"Up to 10%" in the regulation is ambiguous on content.

 

[zurk]

consider yourselves lucky. i just paid Euro 1.78 per litre of B7 diesel (7% restaurant garbage, 93% actual fuel). or a staggering nearly 3 bux a litre. and i had to buy 560 litres of that junk. a whopping $1700 fuel bill.

 

[Jegermiester]

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Here is a simple process to determine the amount of ethanol, if any, in your fuel:

 

[Max123]

I typically launch out of Pitt Meadows marina, which has a fuel dock. The pump indicates 92 Octane (also indicates fuel is leaded, which it is not) - the operator has never been able to answer questions about the fuel and whether it has ethanol, etc. Their tank in underground as well, upkeep at the marina is a bit wanting and the fuel markup is crazy. Generally I don't use their fuel except in the middle of summer when they see significant volume of rec boaters filling up (in fairness, I've never had a problem with it and check my water separator frequently).

Starting this year, I went up the river to the Pitt River Boat Club at the mouth of the DeBoville Slough to try out their fuel dock. Their fuel operation is the complete opposite. Fuel tanks are above ground(visible/clean), fuel is premium/marked at a decent rate, operator was very knowledgeable. Like everyone, they can't guarantee ethanol free, but he was telling me that they test the fuel frequently and it tests as ethanol free.

I've said it several times on the forum that anyone that advertises ethanol free is generally not telling the truth or doesn't know what they are selling, but I think this is what's going on behind the scenes: Most gas stations have two tanks - premium grade (94-92) and regular grade (87), and the intermediate grades are blended at the pump out of these two tanks. Legislation requires fuel minimum ethanol content of total volume sold. I suspect that at certain stations the premium grade is still 0% ethanol and the regular grade is 10% ethanol. Actual % ethanol is dictated by the blend of regular / premium (say if you buy 89 or 91. All the grades are marked 'up to 10%' because fuel sellers just don't want to get into it with customers (and in case they can't guarantee that a certain load doesn't have some ethanol blended in at the refinery, or just through load contamination during trucking).

Anyway - it was interesting to talk to the marina operator and find someone that actually knew something and had actually done his own testing on the product he was selling. +1 for Pitt River Boat Club