{"id":78,"date":"2010-02-07T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arnpriornews.wordpress.com\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2010-02-07T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:28:42","slug":"gasoline-prices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/IndieNews\/index.php\/gasoline-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

To quote top Exxon officials: “There is no gas shortage, There never was a gas shortage, and from what we know now, there never will be a gas shortage!”<\/p>\n

This planet and many others manufacture oil by some process we don\u2019t yet understand. There are more oil reserves now than ever before and consumption has more than doubled since 1973.<\/p>\n

And in 1973 many many huge tankers full of crude oil stayed off shore of New England until they were declared \u201cNew Oil\u201d and could be sold for $30 a barrel instead of $3 a barrel. Oil company officials were running all around the state of Connecticut, looking for closed gas stations, any place they could find to hide as much gasoline as possible so they could free up their tankers to go get more. Gasoline trucks were meeting drivers in New York State (the Ithaca area) in the middle of the night to fill their gas tanks so they could deliver whatever they were delivering. The above two examples are just what I am personally aware of.<\/p>\n

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The following Gas Prices were reported in 2010 (?) and were designed to reflect the prices in the Arnprior, Ontario area (Just West of the Ottawa City Limits) If things get loopy where we have reporters now, we’ll post the crazy new prices above this note.<\/p>\n

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As of February, (Monday, the 7th) Most stations have crept up to 113.9\u00a2 per liter. MacEwan on Madawaska Blvd is at 114.9. Kanata prices keep trying to inch higher (116.x) then fall back (115.x? 114.x?) depending on their competition.<\/p>\n

From my perspective, where I believe it’s all b.s. and the prices should be something like 25\u00a2 per liter, I’m not amused. As a matter of fact, more and more manipulation by corporations and what looks like partnerships\/complicity by all levels of government (who might just be duped, like most of us…) has me wondering why we put up with their bull chips.<\/p>\n

—————Jim<\/p>\n

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Midnight, Monday, September 13th\/ Tuesday, September 14th, 2010:<\/p>\n