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Province extends Fuel order & provincial state of emergency to Dec 14, 2021

Darpan News Desk BC Government, 29 Nov, 2021 04:02 PM

Buying vehicle fuel at retail locations

B.C. is prioritizing gasoline and diesel for essential vehicles, while working to keep fuel available for people in B.C. Under the EPA, an order restricting the purchase of vehicle fuel in certain regions of the province is in place until December 14 at midnight.

If you are not operating an essential vehicle, you are limited to purchasing 30 litres of fuel per trip to the gas station in these areas:

Lower Mainland (Vancouver to Hope)
Sea to Sky (Squamish to Pemberton)
Sunshine Coast
Gulf Islands
Vancouver Island

Price gouging and reselling

Under the order, retail gas stations and wholesale distributors are prohibited from profit margin price gouging and people are prohibited from reselling fuel.

Essential vehicles can access cardlock gas stations 24 hours a day

Essential vehicles will not have a fuel limit. The majority of these vehicles will be able to access gas at commercial trucking gas stations (cardlock gas stations).

Find a cardlock gas station

Under the order, essential vehicles are:

Emergency service vehicles (Fire, police, ambulance and health care including urgent medical treatment)
Public transit vehicles
Commercial transport trucks for critical goods and services (Food and beverage, health care, safety)
Refrigerated trucks
Potable water delivery and wastewater service
Grocery delivery
Road repair, maintenance and recovery vehicles and tow trucks
Military vehicles
Critical infrastructure, construction and repair vehicles
Home-care workers
Municipal services vehicles
First Nations government services vehicles

BC Ferries, Coast Guard, tugboats, marine emergency and pilot boats
Canada Post and other couriers/package delivery vehicles
Vehicles for the provision of critical government services
Airport authority vehicles and air travel
Waste disposal and recycling
BC Hydro, Fortis and other heavy-duty and light-duty utility vehicles
Telecommunication repair and installation vehicles
Fuel delivery trucks and boats
School buses
Taxis and inter-city buses
Agricultural and farm-use vehicles including vehicles supporting flood response
Veterinarians supporting flood response

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