A sign of small relief: gas price is going down 6.2 cents to 134.9/L at midnight
Gas prices going up to $1.40 at midnight
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The beast known only as the " Gas Station " has been fed, and will sleep for about a week before feeding again.
gtm
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I am pretty sure certain petro can gas stations and gas stations that used to be sunoco's carry the higher octane..
viper84737
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Look at torontogasprices.com, look at the heat maps. Look at the Canadian Average vs the American Average. America ON AVERAGE is paying $1 CAD/L while we're paying 30-40% more for the very same stuff we sell to them cheaply. Just ELEVEN YEARS AGO oil prices were $5 USD/barrel. Has the demand for oil increased (or the supply diminished) 15-20x in the past 11 years? Really? Because the price has. Throw in demand from China and India (China primarily), a war in eye-rack, and the inflationary practises of having a fiat currency (print money, no consequences, bail out some banker Wall Street buttholes), and commodity prices for everything will increase because the value of currency asymptotes to zero.
Don't blame the "speculators", nature (supply/demand; "economics") sorts that out in the end. Look at what the "speculators" did in 2008 when their financial bubble burst and they got deleveraged by force. Gas went down to like .66 CAD/L. Nobody complained about "speculators" then.
1) Blame yourselves for buying gas-guzzling SUVs to compete with the Joneses next door. How many meek little Asian girls do I see driving around in daddy's Lexus/Mercedes SUV on a daily basis right here in downtown Toronto? Really, you NEED that SUV down here? How many more do I not see? What about in America where like 99% of the population drives some inefficient truck or SUV when they clearly don't need them? If you're a farmer and need to haul equipment, or a contractor, etc, and you do need them, ok, that's cool, I don't mind, that's why these vehicles were invented.
2) Blame oligopolies that do function as monopolies, with a caveat. You aren't OBLIGATED to buy gasoline! Yes, it's highly, highly impractical for us all to function without it in this society, this is a given, so they sort of do have us by the balls on this one. Unless, that is, we are willing to change the way we live and what we value in life. Granted they do get away with murder. Remember about ~8 years ago the major oil companies got charged with price-fixing gasoline? Does anyone actually remember that happening? I do. Were they punished sufficiently?
3) Regarding #2, blame yourselves again, for:
A) not having the spine to change the way you live or what you value in life (ditch daddy's SUV, princess)
B) not having the balls to DO something about high gas prices, politically (Spineless Canadians at their finest once again, taking it up the ***). Taxing your own population to buy your own natural resource while you sell it for cheap to the neighbours at discount prices is UNACCEPTABLE, yet who will contest this in politics? Maybe our fair Prime Minister who hails from the oil province of Alberta wil--nevermind. Does the average Canadian Sheeple even know WTF is going on? No.
C) not knowing what's going on around you, because you're too busy watching Jersey Shore to think and learn about important **** <-------------------
Also, we can't compare Canada to European countries on gas prices alone. They're taxed differently, have different pros and cons to living there that goes beyond gasoline prices alone (and primarily they use diesel anyway, not petrol).
It's pretty much the same pattern all throughout history. Business runs a country, politics controls the sheeple from benefiting as much as the businesses, until one day there's a revolution (think back to the signing of the Magna Carta, the French Revolution, or the Russian Revolution, if you've ever picked up a history textbook or know what a book even is anymore). These all happened because the poor got squeezed by the rich, to whom they gave up freedoms and power, generally via ignorance, and because the system to which they bowed always favors the rich, because, well, the rich make the rules for the benefit of the rich. I'm just waiting for it to happen again in the modern "developed world".
Don't blame the "speculators", nature (supply/demand; "economics") sorts that out in the end. Look at what the "speculators" did in 2008 when their financial bubble burst and they got deleveraged by force. Gas went down to like .66 CAD/L. Nobody complained about "speculators" then.
1) Blame yourselves for buying gas-guzzling SUVs to compete with the Joneses next door. How many meek little Asian girls do I see driving around in daddy's Lexus/Mercedes SUV on a daily basis right here in downtown Toronto? Really, you NEED that SUV down here? How many more do I not see? What about in America where like 99% of the population drives some inefficient truck or SUV when they clearly don't need them? If you're a farmer and need to haul equipment, or a contractor, etc, and you do need them, ok, that's cool, I don't mind, that's why these vehicles were invented.
2) Blame oligopolies that do function as monopolies, with a caveat. You aren't OBLIGATED to buy gasoline! Yes, it's highly, highly impractical for us all to function without it in this society, this is a given, so they sort of do have us by the balls on this one. Unless, that is, we are willing to change the way we live and what we value in life. Granted they do get away with murder. Remember about ~8 years ago the major oil companies got charged with price-fixing gasoline? Does anyone actually remember that happening? I do. Were they punished sufficiently?
3) Regarding #2, blame yourselves again, for:
A) not having the spine to change the way you live or what you value in life (ditch daddy's SUV, princess)
B) not having the balls to DO something about high gas prices, politically (Spineless Canadians at their finest once again, taking it up the ***). Taxing your own population to buy your own natural resource while you sell it for cheap to the neighbours at discount prices is UNACCEPTABLE, yet who will contest this in politics? Maybe our fair Prime Minister who hails from the oil province of Alberta wil--nevermind. Does the average Canadian Sheeple even know WTF is going on? No.
C) not knowing what's going on around you, because you're too busy watching Jersey Shore to think and learn about important **** <-------------------
Also, we can't compare Canada to European countries on gas prices alone. They're taxed differently, have different pros and cons to living there that goes beyond gasoline prices alone (and primarily they use diesel anyway, not petrol).
It's pretty much the same pattern all throughout history. Business runs a country, politics controls the sheeple from benefiting as much as the businesses, until one day there's a revolution (think back to the signing of the Magna Carta, the French Revolution, or the Russian Revolution, if you've ever picked up a history textbook or know what a book even is anymore). These all happened because the poor got squeezed by the rich, to whom they gave up freedoms and power, generally via ignorance, and because the system to which they bowed always favors the rich, because, well, the rich make the rules for the benefit of the rich. I'm just waiting for it to happen again in the modern "developed world".
Agreed very much. I am pretty much anti-commercialism. The only reason we buy anything, is out of fear, the fear of NOT having it. You see something on T.V and think, jeez, that looks pretty cool, I couldn't imagine not having it now. The same goes with oil, and gas. The thought of ditching what you feel is your safety blanket ( Truck, SUV, ) just scares people into not doing it, you can't possibly imagine being without these tools.
The other thing, in regards to the French Revolution and so fourth with what you mentioned, is that in today's day and age, the rich are MUCH more protected, by the government. You can't just start a revolt these days, people are too reserved, or ***** and complain but are too lazy to get off there *** and make a difference. I really wonder what would make people unite and fight for a common goal, cause I honestly can't think of anything. As long as you have your T.V , Internet, and your cell phone, the majority of people will remain sheep and do what the government say's. And no, you cannot base gas prices on European countries and North America. North America was created with vehicles in mind, unlike Europe where you can bike / backpack almost anywhere.
A couple of reasons why our aristocracy is better protected from the serfs if they decided to have a peasant revolt:
1) They don't live where we live and even if they do, they have a quick exit strategy
2) Technological improvements, both in weaponry and in surveillance technology make it easier to control the masses
1) They don't live where we live and even if they do, they have a quick exit strategy
2) Technological improvements, both in weaponry and in surveillance technology make it easier to control the masses
Alien invasion. Comeon...You should know that one Dr. Manhattan! You were already tricked once!!!!
viper84737
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When we have people uniting for a common goal, it's always the state's goal, never goals of the people. I'm uniting for my own common goals now, you're all welcome to join me 
This is true. Nothing beats ripping it up on a SS on Mars.
