| I definitely have stock in oil companies, i also don't think that they should be increasing in profit this FAST, its ridiculous and let me tell you, the amount of "profit" someone normal, with mutual funds makes off oil doesn't even start to off set the amount i pay at the pump!
also, yes canadian prices have a lot of tax, but this jump is not a "jump" in tax its a jump in oil prices. The tax percentage stays the same no matter what the cost of oil, even though our so called "dependable" government promised a tax break on gas costing over 85c a liter...ppffsh yet to be seen.
the thing that kills me is that Canada itself has A LOT of oil resources... enough to sustain ourselves fine without having to deal with all this crap, yet, because of lack of processing ability and due to our need to export... we don't even see a benefit from having all that oil.
As for the triple price in Europe, I think its terrible but we also have to sit and consider a few things. First off.... I live near Toronto and the average commute here is over an hour. How common is an hour long commute in Europe? Also, Europe is smart and has wonderful public transit ( many cities here do not)... long haul trucking? The equivalent of crossing ontario and you could have driven half way across the CONTINENT of Europe, forget countries...its a different requirement there, but still, unfair.
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