It goes from the refineries in Edmonton to where ever it’s going. Even if you had a refinery onsite, you need to get the crude to another province either by truck, train or pipeline. Moving it thousands of km isn’t free, despite whatever passes for your economic knowledge. That’s why gas is almost $4/L in New Zealand, to use an obvious outlier to illustrate the point.

Yes, BC has higher fuel taxes. But your supposition was that “If gas taxes have no impact, the price of gas would be the same in BC and Alberta.” Which is utter and complete nonsense.

What kind of logic is that? Shipping doesn’t exist?

I was. Livesuit wasn’t long. Maybe that should have just been an interstitial novella? I see it listed on the wikipedia page as a “novella” not a full-blown book.

That just lets the barbarians sneak up on my house without being shot from the parapet. You suck at castle design.

Hey, I just read the first two novels in that series. I should have waited until the third one was out because now I’m sad that I have to wait.

Actually, it isn’t even most of them. I live in rural AB, there’s a lot of anger over the separatists shitting on the legacy of our grandparents that fought and died for Canada.

If he were Prime Minister right now, we’d be so far up Trump’s ass we’d be attacking Ukraine and be the boots on ground in Iran.

I have no clue why the CPC party renewed their support for this dribble that lost them the last election that every poll said they had a 20 point lead going into, and had to be re-run in a stronghold riding to keep his leadership afterwards.

Then his “leadership” drives enough of the remaining MPs they retained over to the Liberals to give them a clear majority. In any reasonable party, he wouldn’t be holding a mop in the party headquarters afterwards.

His incompetence was the best thing that happened to Canada going into the lunacy of the present US administration. We’d have been so thoroughly fucked if he were in power, I shudder to think about it.

Can we use “separatists” instead of “albertans”?

The loudmouth morons are a very small percentage of Albertans. A lot smaller than Quebec’s loudmouth morons.

I don’t fathom 100M to build a new place or renovate Sussex. Maybe I’m not counting in the mandatory porkbarrelling.

That’s precisely the one I was thinking about.

But downvoting the truth without a word in rebuttal is a time-honored tradition in this comm.

I just figured it was to funnel money to Liberal Party donors as usual.

What bullshit. As much as I’d like to hope that were the case, a few weeks of sort of expensive oil isn’t changing shit. Months of lockdown and gas prices hitting pennies didn’t do it.

This is a psy-op.

Oh, noes. Ticketmaster won’t be allowed to scalp their own tickets. Boohoo.

Yah, about that…

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67540190

These laws are cowardly. Do it and suffer the backlash, if any. Far better is education, not prohibition.