this is bullshit and another reason i dont trust ppl. yeah i know we send oil to the states and then buy it back but the reason it's so expensive here is the taxes on gas.  i remember when i was young (20ish years ago), that gas had tax on it, more than the usual sales tax, but now we have at least 2 more carbon taxes on it. at least half the price at the pump is tax. reduce the taxes on gas/oil and you could instantly stop the sting at the pump. my father used to bitch about it 30 years ago and here i am bitchin just like my old man but now i'm triple bitchin. my mother is still alive and says she used to be a liberal until piere trudeau and jean chretien (liberal leaders at the time) got on tv and said canada's economy was doing poorly due to the poor productivity of the canadian worker. shes voted conservative ever since. i wish i could find that tv piece she often refers to. it was around 1966 if any other boomers remember or are good at finding these things.
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