In a report appearing in the Toronto Telegram newspaper on September 20th, 1930 it was revealed that several gasoline filling stations in the east end of the city were engaged in a fierce price war that saw the price of regular fuel plummet to xx cents a gallon. The person who instigated the price war was G. K. Hambleton who was born in Guelph and moved to Buffalo where he had established one of the largest independent filling stations in western New York.
He sold his American business and moved back to Ontario because, to quote Hambleton, "the Canadian public is paying too much for gasoline and motor oil. By importing the gasoline directly from refiners south of the border I can save the automobile owner about x cents a gallon." He went on to complain that all the local independent gasoline companies were at the mercy of the refiners.
Ratet mal wie tief der Preis für 1 imp. Gallone Benzin gefallen war und wieviel cent G. K. Hambleton den Konsumenten dadurch geholfen hat zu sparen.
Viel Spaß,
LG
Gratuliere heli 
So hoch war die Ersparnis leider nicht.
