Freddie P's Blog

February 28, 2007 @ 08:04

Last night I went to buy gas for my wife's car and it wasn't easy. I had to go to four stations before I could find high grade gas and it left me in a state of pissedoffedness.

I don't buy it. If the big oil companies didn't have a history of price fixing and gouging I might be able to find a little sympathy in a refinery fire in Nanticoke, but I'm sorry, I smell a rat.

I keep searching for the answer but I haven't heard it clearly defined yet. If the oil refinery fire was an Imperial Oil problem, why couldn't I get gas at Sunoco and Petro-Canada last night?

I wonder, I just wonder if this is another case of collusion. Here's my conspiracy theory.

Imperial Oil has a problem at a refinery that will force them to raise their prices, but the other oil companies won't be affected. Imperial goes to the other guys and says "if we have to raise our prices and you don't, then you're going to get all the business and we'll get none."

The boys all get together and decide that goes counter to their long and illustrious history of working together through price fixing and controlled shortages, so they agree that everyone will have a shortage and everyone will raise their prices.

Crazy? It might be but I think these bastards are capable of anything.

And here's something that is really crazy. Yesterday when pressed by the media about the gas shortage in the province, Ontario Energy Minister Dwight Duncan said "so what." In the middle of an energy shortage in his province, whether real or orchestrated, the Energy minister said "so what."

The Tory Tory years are coming.