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By Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar

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SOUND OFF: Horgan dances around the issue of gas prices, offers no relief

May 2, 2019 | 7:01 PM

JOHN HORGAN CAN’T SEEM TO GET HIS STORY straight when it comes to gas prices in this province. He continues to bumble and deflect while British Columbians struggle to pay the highest costs in North America.

More than a year ago he said, “We are monitoring gas prices and we will take steps if necessary… We have talked about a range of options and we will look at those options should prices remain high.” Yet to this day, he hasn’t explained any of those options nor acted on them.

He has ignored our Official Opposition’s calls to lower any one of the three gas taxes — or four in Metro Vancouver and Victoria — to provide some relief to drivers.

He has floated the idea of building another refinery, which would take about a decade to build and would have to shut down by 2040 to accommodate new NDP legislation mandating that only zero-emission vehicles can be sold in British Columbia.

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He has wasted a lot of time and money launching five different lawsuits over the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, asking to both restrict oil products coming to B.C. and prevent oil products coming to B.C. from being restricted. This has profoundly damaged B.C.’s important relationship with Alberta.

Most recently, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and his government passed legislation they could use to ‘turn off the oil taps’ to B.C. – and John Horgan’s response, after filing a lawsuit over it, was to suggest Alberta needs to help British Columbia with refined gasoline supplies.

He also said more supply is needed and wants the federal government to take action as the owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline. So, after two years of opposing the pipeline expansion, the NDP now sees the need for it to supply fuel.

John Horgan is clearly going around in circles, and seems to point the finger at everyone but himself. As Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer recently quipped, “Any day now he’ll be blaming the UN.”

It’s time for him to look in the mirror, and act — because B.C. drivers and their families are depending on it.

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