On a recent US trip, I was happy to pay about 30% less for gas than I do in Canada. Yet, everywhere we went, people were complaining about a $4 gal. Why? I live in Canada and we have an abundance of oil resources and we pay 30% more. In fact we pay more for everything here -income tax (OK this includes most of our health care premium), housing, food, airline fares, booze-all the necessities of life. Do we like it? Not really, but it is what it is ie. the price we pay to live in a beautiful (usually rainy) part of the world and if I need to pay more to drive the vehicle of my choice to wherever I want to go to do whatever I want to do (within the law of course,) so be it. If you've ever lived in a part of the world that doesn't have those freedoms, you know where I'm coming from.
It pains me to say this, but I gotta agree with you. I wrote my gasoline blog post on March 23, "Are Gas Prices Really That High?" -- sightingsat60.blogspot.com/2011/03/are-gas-prices-really-that-high.html -- right after I paid $55 to fill my tank. Unfortunately, this past week I paid $60 to fill my tank! Sigh.
Posted by: Tom Sightings | May 11, 2011 at 07:19 PM