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"20April" <20April@xmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:02:23 GMT, john_kulp@hotmail.com (John Kulp) wrote:
>>On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:39:26 GMT, 20April <20April@xmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Media across Canada are moaning that this year will see a drastic drop in
>>>tourism, caused by the obscene gas prices in communist Canada.
>>
>>And which nutbar are we dealing with now?  Please identify yourself so
>>we can all have a good laugh.
>>
>>>
>>>With the oil companies recording their highest profits in history - in
>>>BILLIONS, places such as Alberta Canada deserve to have their
>>>tourism industry go down the toilet, with no tourists prepared to
>>>get ripped off for $5 gallon gasoline!!
>>
>>Right.  They're all headed to Europe where they can pay $8 a gallon.
>
> In Europe, they must import all their oil, so at least there is a reason 
> for
> high prices there.
>
> In Alberta, the oil comes out of the ground HERE, is refined HERE, yet we 
> are
> paying ONE AND A HALF TIME US PRICING, and we ship the oil to the USA and
> eastern Canada where it sells for LESS!
>
> Tourists should avoid Alberta, and all of Canada if they have any sense!
>
>
>>>On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:11:36 GMT, 20April <20April@xmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Your gas comes from Oilberta Canada.
>>>
>>>>At the refinery here, sucker canuckleheads are now paying $5.00 a 
>>>>gallon[US]!!
>>>>We make it here but the crooked governments in collusion with the oil
>>>>companies are ripping us off!1
>>>
>>>>if YOU had to pay $5 WOULD YOU RIOT?
>>>
>>>>Here the sheeple just pay....
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:02:54 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
>>>><barbschaller@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>On my way home from the supermarket I saw a BP (Nicollet & ~126th in
>>>>>Burnsville - between the Pkwy and 13) with gas at 3.529.  Highest I've
>>>>>seen yet.  I didn't read the fine print, but I assumed that was for
>>>>>regular; I stopped at the Holiday near me and filled up for $3.379
>>>>>minus 11 cents/gallon with my Cub discount slips.
>>>
>>>>>Oh, the counter guy at the station had just returned from chasing a
>>>>>drive-off -- he got his license number.  More and more of those
>>>>>happening.
>>>
>

2 years ago, I paid $1.01 / Lt. for diesel.  That is about $3.80 a gallon. 
So relative to the cost of crude, the price has not risen that much.