GAS PRICES SOAR IN RURAL SASKATCHEWAN, MOE REFUSES TO CUT DRIVERS A BREAK

Sask. Party Gas Tax Costs Rural Households $750 Per Year
MELFORT – Gas prices have shot up yet again, leaving drivers in Melfort and right across rural Saskatchewan feeling even more pain at the pump — still, Scott Moe and the Sask. Party refuse to suspend their gas tax.

On Thursday, average fuel prices shot to $1.72 per litre, according to GasBuddy. Photos emerged, however, of some gas stations charging as much as $1.90. Still, Moe continued to hammer household budgets with his fuel tax, which costs rural Saskatchewan households $750 per year.

Carla Beck’s team was in Melfort Thursday to demand, yet again, for the fifth week in a row, that the gas tax be suspended.

“I have to ask why Scott Moe doesn’t seem to care about the financial struggles facing Saskatchewan families and why MLAs like Todd Goudy here in Melfort don’t seem to be doing their job and lobbying the Premier to make life more affordable for their constituents?” said Darcy Warrington, Shadow Minister for Highways & Infrastructure.

“Saskatchewan people drive more than any once else in the Country — people rely on their vehicles to get to and from work, to pick up their kids, to run to the store and so much more.”

Moe also intends to speed ahead with a rate increase for car insurance in June and has already jacked up power rates on families, farms and small businesses by $136 million after promising no such increase was coming.

“You name it, Scott Moe, MLA Todd Goudy and the Sask. Party will find a way to tax it,” Warrington said. “People in Saskatchewan report the highest financial anxiety in Canada, yet this government tells them there’s nothing to worry about.

“Clearly, after 20 years, they’ve stopped listening. It’s time for change.”

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