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Oil has gone down $50 or 34%,
yes our dollar has gone down about 6% and our gas price has only gone down 6.1%.
We are getting ripped off and it is making me angry.

Prices in the states are going down. All of the oil companies excuses aside this is gouging at it's most obvious.

Everyone should email their member of parliament to get them to wake up and have a SERIOUS enquiry into whats going on.

Raising the price of Gasoline on what's happening with IKE in the USA is BS !

We have a number of refineries in our province and they are not effected by IKE.[/b]

After reading about the price of gasoline on various major national papers I have come to the conclusion that this is one of the worst cases of speculation and opportunism I have ever seen.
You can't tell me the gas in the tanks at service stations right now is any more expensive than it was yesterday !
In most cases a price increase due to rising input costs will take some time to work it's way thorugh the system.
The government regulates the price of milk, eggs, has marketing boards for many other commodities why not gasoline ?.

Until society has found a new way to power our vehicles and get away from the blood sucking oil companies there should be some kind of government control over how much prices can be hiked.

Time after time we are at the mercy of a storm in the Gulf or some other nonsense reason to hike the price of gasoline in Canada .

We are continually screwed over, if we had another viable alternative , I am sure we would have no reservations about switching and putting big oil into a much reduced presence in our economy !

The only way you can deal wit it is call an MP

I 'spect that tax just has a little bit to do with this.

[u]It is just another way the government and gas companies can make their wallets fatter. Check this out.

propane fill up
236.0 litres at .743 a litre 175.42
BC carbon tax 3.63
Transportation fee 11.00
Hazardous Mat Handling fee 6.95
Fuel Surcharge 10.00
GST/HST 10.35
217.35

NOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS EQUATION? IF YOU ASK ME I WOULD SAY THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO RUIN CANADA TO THE FULLEST AND WALK AWAY WITH A BANK ACCOUNT THE SIZE OF HIS HEAD AND NOT EVEN GIVE A DAMN EITHER.

And you just realized this?!?!


Canadians complain amongst themselves, they're too apathetic to lobby the government for change. Why shouldn't the oil Execs gouge?!?!

Taking Control of Our Oil Industry
Taking Control of Our Oil Industry By James Laxer



Big Oil gouged Canadians with those 13 cent a liter increases at the gas pumps yesterday.
The spokespersons for the petroleum companies excused the sudden, concerted price jump as the consequence of the threat of Hurricane Ike to the refineries on the U.S. Gulf coast.



Call it a crock, or a lie if you like, because that is what it was.

First, the gasoline we consume in Canada does not come from Texas refineries and second, there is a time lag between refining and selling gas at the pumps.
The gas that you’re buying for $1.36 a liter or more was in the pipeline well before Ike was a puff of wind off the African coast.

Jack Layton was right to say that we need a gasoline price ombudsman to blow the whistle on petroleum company price collusion.
Collusion in this oligopoly has been the norm for more than a century.

We need to go well beyond putting a referee in place, though.


The privatization of Petro-Canada, begun by the Conservatives in 1991 and completed by the Liberals in 2004, ripped Canadians off to the tune of many billions of dollars. The Canadian public, through their tax dollars, took the risks, put up the capital and created Petro-Canada.
In the last five years alone, Petro-Canada made a net profit of $9.2 billion. (Last year the Canadian oil patch made a total net profit of $26 billion.)

Had the company remained publicly owned, its earnings could have been used for future investments, not only in the petroleum sector but in the green energy projects on which our future depends. As well, Petro-Canada could have served as a sentinel in the industry, committed to an anti-price gouging policy. That alone would deter the other majors from playing the game they’re playing this week.



Jack Layton should propose the joint takeover of the major oil companies by a consortium to include the petroleum producing provinces, the federal government, municipalities and the pension funds of Canadian wage and salary earners.


That kind of model has worked well in many countries, as it once did, in part, in Canada in the days when Petro-Canada was owned by our federal government and CANADIANS !

dollar goes up we pay less stupido

What are Canadians going to do about it? USA controls the world.
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Why is it the government's job to dictate prices for you? Shouldn't consumers decide this by trying, as much as possible, to get out of their cars and cut down on their gas consumption?

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