[Flames in 07]

Originally Posted by driveway

To be fair, none of those companies operate gas stations here on Vancouver Island (home of Canada's most expensive gas). Also, none of those stations are associated by name with major oil-and-gas companies, they are all retailers who branched out into gasoline, not gasoline sellers who branched out into retail like every Husky, Shell, Petro-Can, and Esso that dot ever other corner in suburbs around the country.

I recognize that there is a difference between Exxon Mobil and the Esso on the corner, but to suggest that the profits of Exxon Mobil ($40 600 000 000 in 2007) and the price of gas at that Esso ($1.20 - $1.25/ litre in Calgary, $1.33/litre in Victoria) are unconnected is a spectacular example of willful ignorance.

And exactly who is doing that?