Vaughn Palmer: No sign Horgan intends to do anything about spike in gasoline prices Opinion: Unexplained increases in gas prices meant British Columbians were being overcharged by almost half-a-billion dollars a year. Vaughn Palmer Updated: June 24, 2021 Two years after John Horgan’s populist grandstanding, there’s no sign he intends to do anything about the current spike in fuel prices. Government of B.C. / PNG VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan promised action when the price of gasoline spiked in the range of $1.70 a litre in 2019. “The rapid increase in gas prices in B.C. is alarming, increasingly out of line with the rest of Canada,” declared Horgan. “The people of B.C. deserve answers.”