08-20-2015, 05:54 AM
(08-20-2015, 05:34 AM)dmcowen674 Wrote:(08-20-2015, 04:10 AM)SickBeast Wrote: Honestly I think the government should just take over all the refineries.This we agree on.
What these oil companies are doing is criminal.
It's just terrible.
Of course you will get the usual screaming of Socialist blah blah blah but this Industry has shown it can't be trusted from the get go when it started in 1870 and with Government slapping the hand of Standard Oil Rockefeller in 1911.
Standard Oil
Well particularly in Canada I find it absolutely insane that they pump and ship all our oil down to the southern United States so that it can be refined and then sent back up here as gasoline. What a waste! Not only that but it's our oil! We might as well profit from the refineries but no, they have to do it this way. This is clear evidence of their corruption IMO. They are willing to risk the environment transporting all that volatile oil and gasoline all over the place for no good reason other than they want more profit from start to finish.
Actually the way I feel about it is that the oil here is a natural resource of Canada. It shouldn't be made available for these sleazy oil companies to make profit and gauge us at the pumps. It's a joke. Not only that but my grandmother's parents owned land in northern Alberta and when they tried to cash in on the oil craze the government told them that they only owned the top four feet of the soil. But it's ok for these massive corporations to have the oil and make all the money they want!