We are also at the mercy of the wacho environmentalists who lobby long and hard at our weak politicians to not build any new refineries, or nuclear power plants. We have tons of oil but can't get at it due to the NIMBY idiots. Same for the U.S. Oil on both coasts and the Arctic but oh no we wouldn't want to disrupt the polar bear whose population has increased 5,000 to 25,000 in just a few years. North America could be self reliant if we could just get a government with some guts and make real decisions.

HEY PEOPLE THERE IS NO DOUBT GAS PRICES ARE FAR TOO HIGH, IT AFFECTS ME DAILY BECAUSE I USE A VEHICLE ON AN ALMOST DAILY ROUTINE FOR WORK, AND ITS TOUGH TO HAVE TO PAY $100 TO FILL THE TANK ONCE A WEEK AND SOMETIMES MORE THAN THAT. BUT WHEN I THINK OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK IN THE CITY LESS THAN 10 KM FROM THERE PLACE OF WORK-A MERE 20 MINUTE RIDE ON THE TTC AND THEY STILL DRIVE TO WORK, I SEE IT ALL THE TIME, BIG BEUTIFUL PICK UP TRUCKS, WITH THEIR BEDS EMPTY ALL DAY ITS IDIOTIC. THER ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY CARE AND SPEAK OUT, BUT MOST ARE STUPID AND DON'T REALLY CARE. UNTIL WE GET THE DUMMIES OUT OF THEIR OVERSIZED VEHICLES AND INTO SOMETHING SMALL OR ONA BIKE OR THE TTC GAS PRICES WILL STAY HIGH AND GET EVEN HIGHER, AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE BRAINLESS TWITS THAT DON'T CARE DESERVE IT, IT'LL $3per L BEFORE THEY EVEN START TO THINK.

The people of Canada can do something about the price of gas at the pump, and Canadian Thinker is just the place to start.

Remember that the government gets a percentage of each litre sold... not a set figure, but a percentage, so the higher the price the higher the revenue. The one thing that we learn about government is that they love their revenue streams. (Smoking costs our health care system and society in general many, many billions of dollars, and rightly so, should have been outlawed years ago... and why hasn't it? The tax revenue is too much for the government to miss out on.)

It is not surprising that the government would make some gesture of insignificant paper rustling while they rake in the revenue and the average Canadian is cancelling their holiday this year... no more drive every weekend to visit relatives, go to the cottage, maybe every 2-3 weekends. The tourist spots are going to have to do a lot to work for that travel dollar this year as the oil companies have it in their pockets.

Isn't it ironic how the oil prices go up overnight when the cost of a barrel goes up, and it takes a week to see any reduction at the pumps when the barrel price drops. Not to mention all oil companies have reported record profits this year... but if they are just keeping up with the price of oil, how could they have record profits?? Europeans have been paying over $2.oo a litre for many years, and the price at the pumps in the UK has not risen the same percentage as Canada and correct me if I am wrong, is the price per barrel the same in Britain as in Canada. The oil companies are collectively taking advantage of the Canadian people.

That's right... the oil companies have decided to collaborate to realize record profits for themselves at the expense of all of us Canadians.

We can do something about it. You may have all seen emails making the rounds to boycott a couple of oil companies to make them lower their prices... and this will work, however it is not organized enough. I have seen the same email, always targeting 2 stations, with different stations in each email. Too confusing.

We need to take action and pick one company... one oil company that is country wide and all of us stop buying gas from them... how long do you think they could survive with zero sales?? ... and when this company lowers their price to $1.00, we select another station and before you know it we are paying .80 cents again.

We the people of Canada can make this work. The oil companies laugh at us when they see this type of threat... they laugh because they say the Canadian people could never organise anything that could be collective on our part. Let's show them that they are wrong.

Let's select one of the largest companies SHELL and no one buy from them until they lower the price. We can do this!

From this moment forward no one buy gas at any SHELL stations until they lower their price to $1.00/litre. People of Canada, we can make this happen. Send this message to your entire address book that no one is buy gas at SHELL.

People who think oil company profits are too big, should stop complaining and start buying stock in oil companies.

The reason that they don't is because expected ROI for oil companies is not out of whack with market norms.

As I agree with Freddie P and Candian Thinker about 99% of the time this one is touchy.
The Federal Government can control the price at the pumps. We need to create a made in Canada Oil Policy. Where we take care of our own and then sell the surplus. With Oil production in Alberta booming and now with Newfoundland becomming a major player in the oil industry. Now is the time for a new way to look at things.
Not one gallon of oil produced stays in Canada? Its sold to the U.S. and intern there surplus is sold back to us. How wrong is that?
The government can control this but with fuel taxes surging why would they, there money tree has arrived!