1. Gasoline is sold by the LITER in Canada, not by the GALLON. Canada has used the metric system for well over 20 years. There are 3.78 liters to the U.S. gallon. And the Canadian dollar is almost equal to the U.S. dollar. So CDN$1.33 per liter (cheapest rate in Vancouver) works out to be CDN$5.03 per gallon, which works out to be almost the same amount in U.S. dollars. So basically five dollars per gallon and up in Canada.

Posted by: Richard Pope on June 8, 2008 09:07 PM

2. Actually the fed has devalued the dollar to the point where the canadian dollar is equal to a US dollar right now.

Posted by: Lysander on June 9, 2008 05:00 AM

3. Pope is right that the Canadian prices are inline with the US prices. But there is real price outrage out there. Saudis pay the US equivalent of about 50 cents a gallon. And in other countries it is as low as 12 cents a gallon. Why? Because those countries have energy independence.

We likely are sitting on multi billion barrel formations of oil both in South Dakota and off the coasts of our country. But we won't do anything to achieve our own energy independence. We are also creating an ever greater demand for electricity without a corresponding long term plan for independence, and this while we sit on proven uranium mines that could yield centuries of cheap US made energy.

Until we demand that our legislators address energy issues and stop kow-towing to environmental extremists, we will have high gasoline prices.

The solutions are right in our own backyard. We just have to have the moral fortitude to realize that man need make no apology for our growth and energy consumption. These are some of our greatest virtues.

Fortunately, as real Americans feel the pain of prices, they won't tolerate the extreme left any longer. Relief is most likely on the way, because as usual, the extremists on the left have overplayed their hand.

Posted by: Jeff B. on June 10, 2008 09:40 AM

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