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Hey!

   

could of posted a can of beans

   

Well that would fill the tank I'm sure. lol

   

except you would have to stop at every McDonalds on the way to get anywhere

   

Regardless, oil is a finite resource and its continued use doesn't do us much good as far as air, soil and water quality and general health of people or the planet goes.

The internal combustion engine should be obsolete by now. It's a technology that's over a hundred years old, and as technology ages, the more expensive (and sometimes even dangerous) it becomes to continue using it. It should not be any surprise that the price of oil is well over $100 a barrel by now, and the amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth over this is just childish and ridiculous.

   

Electric cars and light rail train have been around for more than a century. It is absolutely inexcusable for us to have got rid of or downplayed these technologies.

As for the basic economics of grade 6, I doubt you ever learned any at all.

   

Keep using gasoline and tell me if the price goes down.

   

My point was it's pretty hard to just get off the gas when there aren't many viable alternatives. At least not in my area. It would be nice if cities would make the streets a lot more bike friendly.

   

its god damn pitiful when they are make 20 something percent more profit when they hike up the price. Now if they didn't have an increase in profit then I don't think we would have a god damn point to argue.

   

Well, this is the problem, you see. Cities, since the end of the second world war, have been built for suburban people driving cars.

City planners don't make much room for cyclists, and the bike lanes that exist actually make it more dangerous to ride your bike in them than to ride with regular traffic because they often lead to nowhere, causing the cyclist to have to merge with heavy traffic. The solution? Ride with traffic. If you obey the rules of the road, and pay attention to what's going on around you, you should be just as safe as you would be driving a car or a motorcycle. I've been doing this for over ten years and have not had one single run-in with a car that wasn't parked (yeah, I hit a parked car once. Shut up! It was raining and my glasses were covered in rain, so I couldn't see a thing. Don't bike at night in heavy rain if you wear glasses.) If you're worried about inhaling pollution from gas-powered vehicles, there are companies that make pollution filtration masks, which make you look like some sort of bike ninja.

If you can't bike, take the bus. It's probably still consuming gas, but it's also transporting a lot of people, so it's a lot more economical than driving a car for, say, eight people with only one person inside of it.

If you can't take the bus, organise a car pool system and make good use of it. Planning car trips and taking several people at once will drastically reduce the cost of driving your car.

   

They will continue to profit as long as people keep buying it. Gasoline is like crack in that respect.

   

we have to put the preasure on our politicians....
theres no excuse for these multi BILLION dollar quarterly profits..
but we forget that the government as well gets these billions too...
also allthat money being spent to develope the tar sands, it should
all be staying in Canada..hence eliminating the need for imported oil
and lowering costs...we have our own blue eyed arabs wearing cowboy hats

   

Maybe for a run from Calgary to Edmonton and the fort Mac but anyone with a grade 6 education knows how CP rail is and if it was profitable it would have been done a long time ago by them,also any one with a grade 1 education thats been anywhere in this vast country of ours knows that diesel fuel is king.

Bloody city slickers anyways,keep your city out of my country.

   

Electric cars. Oh great, hold on let me go more than 100km before needing to stop for the night. Excuse me that I drive more than that visiting family, or anything else.

Light Rail has worked so well. Excuse me, let me go from Montreal to Windsor in LIGHT RAIL. You're nuts.

You basically said as people use it, price goes up. Holy shit I can say that about anything people buy. Ohhh but if we STOP buying, we can watch the price goes down.

Its common sense, not a argument.

   

The warning signs of a shortage have been everywhere for the last 4 years but especially in the north where they have also been rationing for years.The airports wont even sell you jet A or B unless youve had a contract,that means fly your own fuel in at about ten to fifty times the cost.

Because the price of EVERYTHING is directly related to fuel prices expect a tough year.

I'm not a fan of big oil,especially when they turn out quarterly's like they just did and no new refineries on the books to alleviate the problem.

   

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