Actually the US gas isn't subsidized - it just isn't taxed enough so it's
cheaper than anywhere else in the world.  And, what a surprise, Americans
drive too much!

Here in St. John's, Newfoundland, gas prices jumped from $CA 1.387/liter
yesterday to 1.49/liter today - that would be a jump from about $US 5.13 to
$5.52/gallon.  Good thing I filled my tank yesterday!  ;-)  But too bad I
have to drive to the US border next week...

And here in Canada Stephen Harper just came out swinging against gas price
gougers.  Whereupon the Newfoundlanders have called on him to remove the 27%
fuel surcharge on the (very expensive) ferry that is the only way for them
to reach the rest of their country, calling this federally sanctioned gas
gouging.

Meanwhile the Newfoundlanders are all working in the tar fields of Alberta,
where the environment is being utterly destroyed as the oil companies
frantically extract extremely dirty oil to meet US energy demand.  On the
one hand, if gas prices go higher people might drive less and this oil might
be left in the ground where it belongs.  On the other, the higher the prices
go, the more financially feasible it is to exploit horribly dirty and
inefficient oil resources like those in Alberta.  And the economy of
Newfoundland and probably other parts of Canada as well depends on that
supply of highly-paid jobs in Alberta.

I think we can't win!

Joy
(and Matilda, who is trying to get over her need to consume petroleum
products and emit greenhouse gases, but without much success)

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Don Spence <dkspence@telus.net> wrote:

> So Jim, you're paying $1.12 cdn per liter. Here, in Edmonton AB
> Canada, where your stinking cheap oil comes from, we are currently
> paying $1.38 cdn per liter.
>
> You guys are really subsidized.. The worst part is that most Canadian
> oil companies are US owned so not only the oil but our money gets
> exported to your side of the 49th.
>
>
>
> On 13-Sep-08, at 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>
> Date:    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:48:45 -0700
>> From:    Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
>> Subject: Re: Fuel Price Gouging - Again - It jumped nearly $1 locally
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Please remember that this is a world-wide mailing list. Your paltry
>> $4.00/gal. is nothing compared to what our European listmembers are
>> paying. <http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/eupetrolprices/>
>>
>> The US of A still has relatively cheap fuel. $4.00/gal is $1.06/
>> liter.  Euro is about $1.42 currently. Pound sterling is pegged at
>> 1.79.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Sep 13, 2008, at 6:24 PM, John Rodgers wrote:
>>
>> Today, Saturday - Birmingham, AL - down US 280 going southeast from
>>> Interstate 459 - in the area of Inverness, Raceway stations were
>>> $3.99.9/gal while all others along that stretch were $4.19.9/gal.
>>> Some
>>> stations did not have regular unleaded. Others had ONLY the 87 octane
>>> unleaded with 10% ethenol.
>>>
>>
>>