Gas question


fisherguy

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Ok here is my question...Canada gets 92% of our oil and gas from within the country and only imports 8%. WHy then did it just cost me $106 to fill up my new truck?! crazy.gifmad.gif The price jumped over night because of a hurricane that while tragic and destructive came nowhere close the places where we get that 92% of our oil frrom!

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went to work yesterday and the price on the service station side was 105/9 and boss called in fromn the farm and asked me to call in his price, his price was 114/4 for the load that came in that morning, we had to go up to 120, another load comign in today and we expect it to go up again!No idea what is going on,they say its becouse of the refineries[3 of them] that some morons put 20 ft below sealevel, but that is not possable becouse we have a bunch of refineries right here and they only have 3,all it is is one bunch is gettign stupid rich becouse of the missfortune of others!Its sad becouse if ti sticks upat these prices for long we are in big trouble, a major resession is on its way! talked to all our shippers yesterday and everythign is skyrocketing, talked to a local plumer who has to jump his rate up from 1 a km to 1.50 a km, talked to a trucker who hauls grain and was off yesterday couse everyone cancelled his jobs couse he had to jump his rate up,farmers cannot sell priceless grain and then pay a fortune to get it to the elevator when no money there!! All i know is it is gettign really scarry,and all it can do is get worse if the price does not turn around!!

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That's actually a pretty easy question to answer. The Canadian government hits you guys real hard in the pocket book with the taxes they have on gasoline up there. You just don't know it because just like the United States the taxes are already figured into the price at the pump.

Also just so you'll know, about 17% of the oil imported into the United States comes from Canada. Hope that doesn't burn you too much around the collar that your importing some percentage and still exporting some to us too.

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Nevertheless, the instant increase at the pumps is nothing more that complete and total legalized piracy. The fact remains that the refined oil in the tanks has been already purchased by the middle men for transport and delivery to the stations we buy from was done at the lessor prices of previous buys. It is the delivery companies that dictate the price to the stations and the stations to us. Once the price per barrel goes up, the cost to replish supplies goes up giving the transport companies seemingly justified reasons to jack the price up. To compensate the individual gas stations must raise the price at the pump. Who's profitting the most ( other than the owners of the oil in the ground )? I'd bet it's the transporters, the middle men.

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That's actually a pretty easy question to answer. The Canadian government hits you guys real hard in the pocket book with the taxes they have on gasoline up there. You just don't know it because just like the United States the taxes are already figured into the price at the pump.

Also just so you'll know, about 17% of the oil imported into the United States comes from Canada. Hope that doesn't burn you too much around the collar that your importing some percentage and still exporting some to us too.

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Rhino...the taxes have nothing to do with the price rising that much overnight when teh supply was not hurt. And yes it make absolutely no sense we import even 8% of our supply since we export about ten times that much.

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