posted 11-17- 08:53 PM               

This is somehow pushing down the cost of fuel.

posted 11-19- 12:57 AM               

North Bay is closer to Toronto and the major southern cities as far as I know, so I just don't understand it.

I don't drive so I don't pay attention that often but I have a friend who works out of town alot, when it was 64 cents a liter here it was 54 cents a liter in Sudbury.

posted 11-19- 01:10 PM               

Some stations in this area raised prices to
$4.00 a gallon after the Sept. 11 attack.
When interviewed by the news media their story
was "We were afraid we would run out of gas
and we were trying to make sure nobody bought
gas who didn't really need it." What a laugh.

posted 11-20- 12:02 AM            

"Global oil demand contracted by an estimated 750 kb/d in the third quarter due the global economic downturn and the terrorist attacks of 11 September. While jet fuel deliveries held up better than had been expected, OECD demand fell by 2.5% in September, the steepest monthly drop this year. Demand growth estimates are unchanged at about 100 kb/d for 2001 and 600 kb/d for 2002."
http://www.iea.org/omrep/12oct01sup.pdf
http://www.iea.org/omrep/12oct01prices.pdf

The Current Situation

READ -
http://www.iea.org/omrep/12oct01prices.pdf / Prices and Refinery Activity - this may shed some light on to the current oil situation.

Next, skip down to: Crude oil prices and read about weakening consumer confidence (which goes hand and hand with your Marketing Genius SV's theory that the economy is in great shape). Read up on jet fuel demand.

Try this one too:
http://www.iea.org/omrep/12nov01high.pdf

Now, back to January 2001
http://www.iea.org/omrep/1901two.pdf

"Despite a booming North America, European economic strength, and Asian recovery, OECD oil demand increased only fractionally last year, and declined in both Europe and the Pacific.....Higher oil prices significantly depressed demand for the heavier end of the barrel: fuel oil and "other products", despite end-year support from North American switching from naturaly gas to fuel oil."

There are two sides to everything.

Corporate and generosity are two words that don't mix. I'm sure it's just a little bit deeper than your liberal conspiracy theory. Try reading up on the situation. No one person's theory is correct and no one knows all the answers. You may think you do...but then you probably vote for the same political party all the time like a blind sheep.

Besides, do you not like filling up the Non-Union, foriegn-owned parent company Subaru with cheap gas? Does it feel odd to hang an American flag on the antenna of that thing? I bet the fellow vets at the American Legion Hall don't like... oh wait, you have never served your country. My mistake. I bet you are proud to be an American.