I’ve been watching the way our gasoline prices have been rising drastically and noticing that they aren’t easing back to the levels they were at. Has anyone noticed that there wasn’t really much damage in Texas, but the gas prices didn’t really go down after the big price hike scare. I know that the current price of $1.17.9/l is much lower than the $1.39/l that it had climbed to. But what happened to the $0.79/l that we were compolaining about not too long ago?
What’s going on? Do the oil companies have so much control over the world that they can dictate prices this much? Are the gas stations gouging us? What happens when the power company gets their way, pleading that the price of fuel is too high now? Can we sustain another price hike on the one service that we have come to depend on? Our provincial power company, its rumoured, may raise their prices by as much as 16% in one swipe. Is this right?
I’d look over this post and think I was just blowing smoke, but I can’t seem to afford anything that would produce any smoke, so it must be so…
…or is this a marketing ploy backed by Toyota to sell their (seemingly timely) hybrid line?
They have us by the short hairs and they know it.
I’m getting that impression. I was thinking that if I ever achieved that comfortable “independantly wealthy” status, I’d get a big solar panel and a giant water tank with a few windmills and generate my own power, while remaining hooked to the grid so that my surplus would go to the grid and the power co would have to pay me :d:d
Oh, that would be the life. Or sell you’re surplus at a cheaper rate to us Peons and undersell the greedy bastards!