This is my guess. The oil on the store shelves now were produced with
crew oil from last summer. Most gasoline is produced and consumed almost
immediately. But engine oil is not consumed immediately. We only change
oil a few times a year. So they don't produce oil everyday. But this is
just a guess. It's likely the price is artificially kept high.

David

--- On Fri, 12/19/08, David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA> wrote:

> From: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
> Subject: Re: The Cost of a Quart..  friday Trivia
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 10:59 AM
> Yup greed!
>
> One barrel of oil has something like 170L of oil -
> so about (assuming $40 a barrel) so about $0.24 per
> liter... currently at
> the pumps in Quesnel is it $0.70 for gasoline and $0.95 for
> Diesel - oil
> at the department store here, cheap no-name crap, is about
> $2.00 a liter
> and it is not taxed nearly as much as fuel is taxed.  Yup
> - we're
> getting screwed!
>
> David Marshall
> VW Adventure Driver and
> BMW Adventure Rider
>
> http://www.hasenwerk.ca
>
> On Fri,
> December 19, 2008 10:33, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: