Your natural gas bill is being increased again. The increase is from 8.287 to 9.780. Terasen says this is an 11% increase, but my calculator indicates that this is an 18% increase. It is bad enough that you face the increase, but the extra salt in the wound is that they are not telling the truth about the actual percentage of the increase.

Don't forget Teresan will be going up on top of that with Campbell's carbon tax July 1st. Forestry is down the drain and now he's working on the 2nd most important industry, tourism. Welcome to BC, here's a 2.5 cent per liter carbon tax on fuel and make sure you pay for it first because you're all crooks. Oh yeah and here are some user fees for you to pay too. I think the Albertans and Americans will be staying close to home. I know I will be staying home, I have to save my pennies to heat my home this winter.

What's with the road into Aberdeen Golf Course? The developer has been working on that road for months but now it seems work has stopped. In the meantime the detour to the golf course take all the traffic through a residential area. With all the speeding cars and trucks, some kid (or adult) is going to get run over. It's just a matter of time.
Is this just a case of developer greed? Promise a paved road, go through the motions, but unable to part with the money needed to finish. The stuff that this developer pulls off and gets away with is a joke.

I am concerned about climate change, but I believe that British Columbians are being lulled by Gordon Campbell's green spin doctors into thinking that the BC Liberals care about the environment. Nothing could be further from the truth. This isn't about saving the planet. It's about making Campbell look like a visionary eco-crusader.
Gordon Campbell's fuel tax is putting the burden on ordinary people like me and you while letting the big polluters off the hook. Gordon Campbell will hit consumers with another unfair gas tax that will hardly make a difference in reducing greenhouse gases.
In the fight against climate change the only green initiative Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals know is lining the pockets of their financial supporters. Gordon Campbell’s continued arrogance has taken us in the wrong direction. What we end up getting is simply a gas tax instead of a climate change plan. And it's a gas tax that's unfair.
Tuesday May 12, 2009…don’t let Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals forget. Vote for change.

Got my bribe cheque from Gordo! Sure nice to get my tax money back :)
I figure that will pay for the tax on 500L of gasoline...or last me until about September driving to and from work. I could also use it towards paying the difference for a month's of before and after school daycare. Hey, I could even use it to neutralize the increased cost of groceries--it will pay for two weeks of lunch for my child. It may even cover a month's hydro payment.
However, it won't buy me a bus pass for the year. Nor will it buy me a bicycle. I could go and spend it at the farmer's market I suppose to assist local farmers but it won't go very far.
Hmm...maybe I should spend it on enviro-friendly cleaners... How about, since I still earn under the poverty level of $29,000, I just take our $100 and enjoy some local entertainment and eat out this weekend?
Then again, my carpool driver is working out of town next week, so I will probably spend it on cab fare. *sigh...decisions, decisions................

Welcome to the land of high taxes and dead forests. The near future is going to be a dismal one. I feel for the people that don't have a job right now, it's tough enough to make it working full time.

How much of a differance does this $100 bribe make...lets see $10 in gas just to get it to the bank...$5 for my bank to deal with this cheque...$10 dollars to create the cheque and envelope and postage and fancy recycled eco options pamphlet...$2 dollars for annoying advertising campaign...
Just enough left over for a tank of gas in my gas guzzling buick...might as well have some fun this long weekend...couldn't afford to leave town...thanks Gordo.

What a bunch of bitter people we have here, providing their opinions, I mean gripes. I know its the free-for-all, get it off your chest day, but reading all these posts make me feel as if I'm living in the worst place in the province (or country). Haven't any of you guys lived anywhere else? Have you not seen (or experienced) conditions elsewhere?

I've lived and worked on a few different continents, different countries, than PG, and you won't find many better places than right here, people.

Have a look at this article if you really want to see how bad things can get:

http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-06/worlds-10-dirtiest-cities

As suggested in the pamphlet that came with the $100 I am going to put mine towards a hot water heating system and hope the government can pay for the rest.

I'm concerned about climate change ... I'm fearful the developer is going broke and leaving the project unfinished ... I don't see why we can't have our cake and eat it too ...

God, I'm starting to sound like a City Councillor!

I found this post interesting:
"Posted by: volunteer FF on June 25 2008 7:13 AM
When talking to the ladies that were at the information session last night it sounded like the study was a sham for it seems like they never found out which direction that the most goods came from, where they go to or looked at the roads that are already there out side of the city. Most of the goods that travel through the city that don't travel by truck travel by rail and the rail lines and switching is done along 1st ave rail yard or the BC rail yard to the south and travel along the river across from Queensway. So if there was a major spill on the rail which is Federally regulated most or all or the city would have to be evacuated or the people would have to be protected in place in their homes."

Anyone else concerned about the activities of the CN and the proximity to residential areas and the City in general?

I have a gripe this morning...

On Monday, I took my 2 year old daughter to Rainbow Park to play as I had the day off. It was a gorgeous day, and we all know to take advantage of those!

As she was playing in the sand, I noticed cigarette butts in the sand. A couple wouldn't have been so bad, but my daughter who was playing in the sand easily brought me 20+ of them within a span of 30 minutes (I told her not to touch - but she saw me picking them out, so she copied). This is so utterly wrong and disgusting! This is a children's play area and people are using it as their own personal ashtray!!That is both lazy and inconsiderate.

For those smokers that just got their back up, I am an ex-smoker. I can assure you that in the 10 years I smoked, I disposed of my butts in ashtrays and IF there was not one available, I butted it and carried it in the pack until I could dispose of it.

It is called being aware and considerate to your fellow man.

len ....

The increase you are describing is the "cost of gas" increase per GigaJoule.

There are other charges such as midstream, basic and delivery charges, as well as franchise fee and clean energy levy which are not increasing.

So, when you add all those charges up, before the GST is put on it, the increased total amount is what they say it is.

Those other charges will increase next month....... :-(

Yes, beesknees, "It's the best place on earth." Still. In spite of all those we elect's continuing attempts to ruin it.

I woke up this morning.
We did not get wiped out on the highway coming into town.
Checked the obits in todays paper, over a cup of coffee, relieved to see that I am not listed there yet.
It is Friday, payday, and a long weekend.
I am going to fill up a few vessels with fuel, to save a wee bit anyway, before the save our planet revenue neutral thing takes effect.
In sum, I think that life is pretty good.
There is not much we can do, save complain, about what the polidiots do with the money they collect from us, sohwell.
metalman.

beesknees .....

I guess you have not learned about striving for the best yet, have you?

I really do not care how well we do against the worst places in the world, other than to try to help the people who live in such places.

I care how well we do against the best places in the world and try to reach for improvement rather than being complacent.

So, if you are in a down and out mood, nothing better to get you out of it to compare yourself to people who are worse off.

I hope that such is not the kind of mood people in PG start taking on, otherwise we will be never get to be like some of the small cities on the world's best and cleanest cities are. That is the list that interests me. How do we get there is what we should be concerned about.

I woke up this morning.

I think someone should put those words into a song......

;-)

...... you were on my mind .....

Beesknees:"I've lived and worked on a few different continents, different countries, than PG, and you won't find many better places than right here, people."

I agree completely! Thanks for the positive input! There are problems, many of them person made (man/woman) - but all of them can be overcome if dealt with intelligently and with determination.

There is nothing wrong with comparing ourselves to those who are better off and those who are worse off.

It's the only way to find out where we are at and appreciate the good things we are already enjoying.

A couple of times when my airplane landed at P.G. Airport and I disembarked I felt like doing the Pope thing - get down on my knees and kiss the ground!

Enjoy the sunshine!

Why didn't the NDP's "axe the tax" Petition separate the expression of the public's desire to simply stop the Carbon Tax from an expression of support for Carol James' "Climate Action Plan"?

These are two very separate issues. But the way their Petition is worded deceptively tricks people into thinking that they're voting to end something which many of us don't want ~ Gordo's "Carbon Tax"; while at the same time they're possibly unwittingly expressing support for some nebulous alternative which they really might not want either ~ Carol Jame's "Climate Action Plan.".

I'd have no problem signing their Petition if it were simply to "axe the tax". And I think most people, even those who've signed it, feel the same way.

But that's NOT just what it's a call to do. And already Carol James' Party is saying that all those that signed it want her alternative instead.

To me, this is just another indication of why the NDP is still unfit to govern. Ms. James had a great opportunity to organize a Petition that would truly have expressed "the will of the People" had she separated the two issues.

By doing it the way they have, the NDP is just sneakily trying to get people to support something many people didn't even realize they were supporting when they signed. What is she afraid of? That in HONESTLY asking two separate questions, she's going to get an answer to the second one that conflicts with NDP policy?

What if it did? Wouldn't that be an indication to her, and her Party, that "the People" don't want what she's proposing either, and they'd better look for a better alternative. Or, hopefully, realize trying to change the world's 'climate'for the better through further 'taxing' BC citizens is nuts to start with.

Interesting site beesknees.
"Which Industries Need to Shape Up" contains info on local government and how it is up to the citizenery to apply pressure to make local government aware. We are lucky to live where we do but we also need to be vigilant and particpatory in seeing things are going well for all the people who live here.

With reference to socredible's comments on the ndp; Leave it to the ndp to b.s. everybody into signing their 'petition' it is working for them anyway, look at the attention they are getting, that is what they crafted that b.s. petition for after all, to draw attention to the party, and their 'pricipals'
Owl, there is a song in my heart, but still, metalman is blushing. *:))*

Well these cheques (I have 3 kids!!) came to me at a good time...using them to help me drive to Rupert and board the ferry (ouch on the wallet that ferry is) for the Queen Charlottes to visit my dad...ahhhh peace here I come :)
Yes, enjoy the sun today! Beautiful morning.

Any day above ground is a good day :-)

If you don't like the NDP petition, socredible, there is absolutely nothing to stop you organising a petition of your own to say whatever you want. However, you speak for yourself only. You have no idea what other people who signed the Axe The Tax petition thought of the wording. Perhaps other people who signed it did indeed read the wording and understand it.

Posted by: owl on June 27 2008 8:03 AM
I woke up this morning.

I think someone should put those words into a song......

;-)

...... you were on my mind .....

Nazareth wrote a song using some of those words.

Woke up this mornin.......my dog was dead.
Someone disliked him......and shot him through the head.

Lets go back a month or so...just wondering why all the diking etc was done on the north side of the nechako when it was flooding and it appeared not a thing was done with the flooding that was happening along the Fraser? Is this just another example of money talks?

My concern for today, yesterday and tomarrow. Is the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. More importantly the slaughter of horses for Human Consumption. This is a topic avoided by many. We need to recongize the situation regardless of whether we own horses, or not.
In 2006 the US passed legislation making slaughter houses illegal. A loop hole was found in the legislation and while slaughter houses were no longer open in the US, it did not stop the transportation of animals to other countries. Canada has seen a 75% increase in horses for slaughter, Mexico a 312% increase, since 2006.
The result of the passed legislation hasn't improved the situation, only moved it too other countries. Canada is known as the slughter house capital of the world.
The CFIA is in place to insure that animals are processed in a humane manor. Many have seen the footage and story that was braodcast on CBC.
Lack of support from the CFIA was evident on this footage. Horses transported are required to have shoes removed. This is a safety procaution to make the long trip for these animals a safer one. Judging by the bucket of legs with shoes still attached shows these rules are not even being acknowledged. No food or water was given to animals awaiting slaughter.

The killing box is the most inhumane thing ever created by man. Horses panic, and are terrified if they slip and cant get thier balance. The killing bos is exactly that. A box that the animal is slid into then killed by a hammer/bullet type of gun. Basically it looks like a sludge hammer. We have a horse that is slipping and sliding around until the animal is finally given the final blow-this is humane?. They allow of a 5% error rate. Based on 7 slaughter houses and approximently 100 horses per day-35 of those animals are 'living carcasses'. The CFIA is supposed to be doing a job. They are not!.

We need tougher rules, and perhaps a regulations put on the industry. I dont understand why we are processing these animals for other countries. If they want to eat horse meat...let them do thier slaughtering.

A common arguement is that horses would starve to death...etc. If we banned slaughter houses.
We could make euthenization free from local veternarians. Giving incentive for horse owners to make a descision. This would help regulate the horse industry and keep our animals safer, and healthier.
WE need changes and the changes need to be done now!

You Were On My Mind
Sung by the Wee Five and was a hit
back in 1964. Lyrics were written by Sylvia Tyson. I guess that dates any of us that remember the song. :o)


When I woke up this morning
You were on my mind
And you were on my mind
I got troubles, whoa-oh
I got worries, whoa-oh
I got wounds to bind

So I went to the corner
Just to ease my pains
Just to ease my pains
I got troubles, whoa-oh
I got worries, whoa-oh
I came home again

But I woke up this morning
You were on my mi-i-i-ind and
You were on my mind
Yeah I got troubles, whoa-oh
I got worries, whoa-oh
I got wounds to bind

And I got a feelin'
Down in my sho-oo-oo-oes, said
Way down in my sho-oo-oes
Yeah, I got to ramble, whoa-oh
I got to move on, whoa-oh
I got to walk away my blues

But I woke up this morning
You were on my mind and
You were on my mind
Hey I got troubles, whoa-oh
I got worries, whoa-oh
I got wounds to bind

Just opened my gas reconciliation statement - it went up from 1906.00 per year to $2508 per year.
"I got worries, whoa-oh".

If you don't want the $100.00 bribe then return to sender and that will make a statement.

LOL grandmah, the hundred dollar bribe is YOUR money. Why would one give it away?. Give it to me!! Please!! :0

Ahen, lostfaith:

=========>8 snipped 88 snipped 8

Buying $100.00 worth of beer for the weekend to help ease the pain of high gas prices

$100 worth of tax free, green, locally grown product

Hey owl,
the rock band Nazareth did just that.

Woke up this morning
My dog was dead
Someone disliked him
And shot him through the head
I woke up this morning
And my cat had died
I'm gonna miss her
Sat down and cried
Came home this evening
My hog was gone
The people here don't like me
I think I'll soon move on
And now somethin's happened
That would make a saint frown
I turned my back and
My house burned down
Woke up this morning
My dog was dead
Someone disliked him
And shot him through the head
I woke up this morning
And my cat had died
Don't you know I'm gonna miss her
Sat down and cried

Have a nice day!

Nazareth is an awesome band. I cannot wait for them to come back to town. My ears were ringing for three days after the concert last summer (my buddy forgot the earplugs in the car) although I think that most of the ringing could be attributed to the Headpins.

So, according to the sujpreme court of Canada, it's OK to be racist as long as you're not a WASP!! The CBC says that the verdict today about the aboriginal fishery was a victory for the aboriginal people and a loss for the commercial fishermen. To my way of thinking the biggest loss goes to the fish.
If you're wondering about the loss of sockeye in the Skeena run, you;ve obviously never seen the fish wheels and nets strung across the river. Maybe the court should consider that the original In dians didn't have motorboats, styrofoam ice boxes and tractors for hauling their fish all over hell's half acre.
Say goodbye to the Fraser Sockeye!

I often have to go by the Petrocan at 5th and Carney at two or three o'clock in the morning. Very often, the price of gas has been raised by a cent a litre. Go past again in the daylight aand the price is back to 'normal.' Anybody got any bright ideas??
Also: the price of supreme gas is 10. 11. or 12 cents over the price of regular.The Day and Night Esso up the Hart is, I think, the only place in town where the difference is only 9 cents. So does that suggest that maybe a little gouging is going on?

Why even wake up in the morning?

So our wonderful city is looking at making Highway 97-Chief Lake Rd- Fothills to 15th Ave a dangerous goods route. What a wonderful choice for us that live in this area. It will be so nice to listen to semis 24 hrs per day. There are those who will say what is your problem, the trucks go up and down Foothills to the dump already? Well, that is only during the daytime. It is interesting that our city has to bring in a non-local to guide them. The PG Citizen stated that Sarah Rocci (consultant) was in the city to hold a round of public consultations regarding this. Without knowing, I can almost predict that she is from the Vancouver area (you now, the only place that exists in this province). Anyways in her great wisdom I wonder if she took into account the fact that Chief Lake Rd is quite narrow, then turning onto Foothils there is only 1 lane going down Foothils hill. And then straight down 15th Ave. Of course she must have remembered that we have winter here, and that means winter driving. I wonder how the truckers feel about all of the turns and corners versus 1 straight line down Highway 97? I can't wait to drive down Foothills following semis at 30km an hour due to steep icy driving condtions. Of course I am sure the city is going to provide us with 2 lanes for the downhill section of Foothills, as well as center concrete meridians. And I am sure my property value will greatly increase when I put my house up for sale and advertise that it is located on a dangerous goods route. Oh yes, I can't forget about the fact that my property taxes will of course decrease. (ya right!!)

Hey Doc
I would say the price of fuel is up at night time to increase the stations profits from the impaired drivers refuelling after a night in the downtown, LOL.

I hope people are not wasting their money on buying premium fuel for their cars and trucks.
If you read in your owners manual, it tells you what octane rating your vehicle requires.
Unless you have increased the compression in your engine, you are wasting your money using higher octane fuel in your vehicles.
High octane gasoline does not increase your engines power in anyway.
Octane ratings of gasoline are the numbers that are used to indicate the fuels ability to resist knocking/pinging.
Low compression engines require lower octane fuel than does a high compression engine.
Check your owners manual and save money.

Posted by: Loki on June 27 2008 12:15 PM
Hey owl,
the rock band Nazareth did just that.

........Sorry dude beat ya to it..........

Posted by: lostfaith on June 27 2008 9:26 AM
Posted by: owl on June 27 2008 8:03 AM
I woke up this morning.

I think someone should put those words into a song......

;-)

...... you were on my mind .....

Nazareth wrote a song using some of those words.

Woke up this mornin.......my dog was dead.
Someone disliked him......and shot him through the head.

Yes Lamb, there are a lot of people that are upset with the CN Yards on 1st Avenue. It is interesting that I know of two times that CN has offered the area to the City and twice the City has turned it down. So who is to blame, CN Rail, the City or both?

PS, please no one tell the cost was too high as the first time CN offered it for $1 and there was federal money for the clean up. But the City thought the cost was too high as the land could not be developed & sold for industry.

For you folks that think government and union workers get paid to much, This will make you flip, a radiologist at the hospital gets paid 0ne million for reading your xrays. Also they may have a private pratice on top of that. Not bad coin.

I wouldn't believe that until I saw something to back it up.
Never heard of private practice radiologists operating in Canada.
Illegal I believe

You are quoting this information from where?

Hopefully when you need a radiologist to interpret your xrays for the cancer you will undoubtedly get from eating all that toxic farmed salmon, you will appreciate his or her skill in helping you live instead of attacking them with silly numbers.

1 Million to read a exray? Are you sure about that?

I bet NDP drafted that pay plan.... So Typical of them to look after their Union Brothers and Sisters.

Remember their past pain that we are still suffering for...Thank God for Gordon C...

I doubt that he would be in a Union!

WISHING YOU ALL A GREAT WEEKEND!!!

and since I won't be around a
"HAPPY CANADA DAY" eh!!!

There is a "private" (actually publicly funded for profit) x-ray facility in the Phoenix building. Radiologists are paid fee for service, that is per item, and they don't just read x-rays.

Are they in a union? Is the BCMA a union, that is the question? The current fee schedule was negotiated with the provincial Liberal party in power and pulling the strings. They drafted that plan.

You are aware that radiologists are specialist doctors, aren't you getajob?

Sorry I didn't make it very clear. That is what radiologists are supposed to be making. Then on top of that some have a regular practise. Getajob lets just say if the NDP drafted the pay plan, then it must be okay for emperor, C02 buster, Gordo because its still in effect. You must like the C02 tax since its a Gordo tax, But I guess somehow you will blame it on the NDP. How long have they been out of power now?

If you want to hear an enlightened politician, go to

http://thetyee.ca/Podcasts/2008/06/25/Green-simpson.mp3

for a great discussion.

doc said .... "Maybe the court should consider that the original In dians didn't have motorboats, styrofoam ice boxes and tractors for hauling their fish all over hell's half acre."

That's not the big consideration at all. The big consideration is that for hundreds of thousands of years there was no market for the salmon at all, other than bears and harbour seals (which were actually not harbour seals until there were harbours .. :-) ... ) and other such predators. The poor things mostly died of old age ..... what a waste of perfectly good food.

Sort of like the forests. For hundreds of thousands of years God and the Martians saw all those quilt work like patches in the forests just like today, but they were all created by small 20 to 30 hectare fires just like the logging we do these days and is visble from the air and as shown on google earth.

I like it when we mimic nature so well ....

;-)

Socredible I personally prefer the petition's wording to the carbon tax and double speak from the BC Liberals. Although, it is a vague "plan" this leader stepped up with a petition. So yeah, maybe by signing a petition put forth by a political party leader means I support that party on THAT issue...so what. That is the most leadership I have seen in a loooong time. Yep, just maybe, she could have used it in opposition earlier in the game...but hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20. If Gordo turned around tomorrow and said, April fools! I was kidding about the carbon tax, would that make me vote for him? Nope. Know why? Because his leadership has turned a deaf ear to the public's wishes and nothing irritates more than that (well, except lying). When Gordo was first campaigning for premier in the town where I was living at the time, he refused to shake my hand and talk to me. I couldn't understand why. I was out trying to get informed on each of the candidates' platform. Hours later a friend said you have an NDP button on your jacket. I said, naively at the time, oh you can't be serious! That wouldn't stop a politician from talking to me, I haven't voted yet! Surely, they would want to win me over. You have to understand I collect buttons, all kinds...I hadn't even considered what was on my jacket. So, whom do I support? The candidate that stands up for what they believe in regardless of party stripe, and will talk over the issues with me in the same manner before an election as well as after an election. I have yet to personally meet a BC Liberal willing to do that.

I couldn't help but notice good ol' Lois Boone sneaking onside of Carole James fer a photo op ranting about Gordos carbon tax scheme. She can't seem to get her dipper addiction to go away. I was somewhat surprised that Paul Ramsey wasn't looking fer free ink too . I guessd he got this NDP crap out of his system. Good fer him if he has.

Does anyone know if we're still paying the 3 cent a liter gas tax imposed a few years ago, supposedly for road construction?

Harbinger, so good to see logic overruled by by bias and shortsightedness. You may still believe that the BC Liberals won't sell BC Rail or tear up contracts. At least when Ms. Boone has a photo taken, she doesn't have to expend a lot of greenhouse gases the way Gordo does when he flies in for a photo-op the gets out of town before the citizens have a chance to talk to him. Don't forget this gas tax bill was passed by the BC Liberals using closer so it couldn't be debated or amended in the legislature.

the following comment was sent to us from the lower mainland.

This is in response to Shane Simpsons letter urging people to give their 100$ checks from the B.C government as they receive them to the NDP party to support their political campaign. I feel this isn’t right as the checks are meant to be used towards helping the environment and reducing the effects of global warming. Even if Simpson doesn’t support the policy of the liberal party giving people funds to help fight global warming, he shouldn’t be encouraging people to give their money to a political party, as myself and I am convinced most NDP supporters would rather see the money donated to things like charities, or to British Columbians in desperate need of the money.

Ciaran Olsen

Burnaby, B.C

Yes that sounds like something NDP would do. Go figure eh!

Only 5 more sleeps until Gord's wonderful new gas tax kicks in.

Maybe we should all pool our $100 cheques to create our own corporation and run this province ourselves :)

Wonder if Shane Simpson's letter was endorsed by Carole James...if so, I won't support any candidate from either party...if not I hope the NDP publically "flog" him!

Hmmm....just realized....guess Gordo gets his wish then...I will go green with my cheque....Green Party...that is...lol..what alternative is there?

Who wants to know why you are paying through the teeth for gas?

During the 1999 presidential campaign of George Stupid, that Saudi slave was able to make hay from the fact that President Clinton once had "no energy policy" during his 8 year regime, and once tapped the country's Strategic Energy supply. In fact, Clinton deferred to the free market:
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4758

Wall Street generally supported Clinton inaction, and championed the development of Options trading in petroleum:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/01/200-oil-options-increase-ten-fold.html

Clinton's former Labour Secretary has produced this whitewash of his administration's role in causing oil price volatility:
http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-is-gas-at-4-gallon.html

Under Clinton, New York interests took a shot at Chicago prevalence in the commodities market. Currently, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) effectively controls global prices of petroleum goods:
http://www.huliq.com/27288/nymex-to-introduce-rbob-gasoline-and-heating-oil-options-on-cme-globex

During the current US presidential campaign, rather than risk loss of business support candidates have focused on funding alternate energy resources, or new means of transit:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1401672/high_gasoline_prices_spark_gusher_of_energy_legislation/index.html

Finally, high oil prices are the result of the Options market, which indulges trade manipulation. Any 2-bit guru can cite a reason why prices should rise, and the institutional investors (Insurance, mutual funds, investment groups, etc) flood the so-called Hedge market. Gas prices are high because profiteers want them high. The current gouge is largely the result of indulgence of a single mouthpiece:
http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/0/0/an_oracle_of_oil/

Is the US running out of oil? The country runs 3800 off shore drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. An estimated one half are tapped. That is: they could produce but are kept in the reserve balance sheet. The Bush Crime Family - owned by Saudi parasites (Aramco) - indulges market manipulation because they earn millions from same. Vice President Dick Cheney made $60 million in unearned money from his connection with post Gulf War oil interests. George W Bush wants the same thing. Prior to assuming office, he profited from dry well operations with the Arbusto firm (Spanish for bush), and raked in millions from Enron and his figurehead connection with the Texas Rangers baseball team.

http://thinkery.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/29/bandarbush.jpg

http://www.hermes-press.com/bush_kiss.jpg

http://www.hermes-press.com/BushSaud.htm

travism wrote:
" So instead of an equal taxation policy I am taxed more becuase of geography.

Moreover, because there is a much larger population base in the lower mainland, it doesn't mater who we vote for, we can't change which party gets in. Therefore, we have taxation without representation and are no longer in a democracy. All hail King Campbell."

VERY GOOD POINT...this means this carbon tax could very well be UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
...might be hope yet to get rid of this bs :)

If you dont agree with the 100 free bucks...send it back! I dont support the Tuna industry so i dont buy it or eat it!
if you are serious about your views then send it back.

In response to Ciaran Olsen, NDP supporters will do with the Liberal bribe money whatever they choose. When the cheque is cashed it becomes the property of the recipient to dispose of as they like, including donating it to a political party. If offered to the BC Liberals, do you really think they would turn it down? I don't think so.

NDP supporters do not need to be told what they should think. Most are quite capable of thinking for themselves, thank you very much. Some will donate it, some will not. In either case, that is their business, not yours. It is called freedom of choice, possible you may have heard of it.

By the way, donating it to the NDP and kicking out the Liberals is probably the best thing you can do to help the environment.

Got that right. The NDP would shut the province down and Ammron could turn out the lights in PG!

Ciaran Olsen said: "I feel this isn’t right as the checks are meant to be used towards helping the environment and reducing the effects of global warming."

I agree! I am buying a truck load of birchwood for the winter and getting my wood appliance going once more and burning that up to heat as much of the house as possible so that I use as little as possible of that nasty natural gas. I have to get back to the olde bioenergy stuff.

Also taking all the weather stripping off my doors ands windows so that the house gets back to goode olde fashioned natural ventilation rather than running the fan and wasting energy for something that happens by gravity.

Time we got back to nature and the $100 is going to let me do that.