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Originally posted by Lurch@Sep 23 2005, 04:37 PM
A joke? Sounds like a market to me!!
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That's true, but when there is a talking head from Shell or Petro-Can (which there was) on TV saying "this is not price gouging, this is reality, events in the Middle East have severely disrupted oil and gas production and our prices are a reflection of that" when the real policy is "charge whatever you can, depending on the street you are on and what the competition is charging", that's when it becomes a joke.
It was nothing more than an excuse to ramp up the prices and the Middle East had nothing to do with it. That's their prerogative though, but it was still a joke.
But I agree with you about the irony of right-wing Albertans calling for controls and all that, while just this week we had a very one-sided discussion about how terrible exactly that would be.
Maybe, instead of the government doing it for us, we could put some controls on our own consumption? Shudder to think.