裸奔

每个油站西人都在排长队加油，说是要涨到1.8$

voler sans aile

让暴风雨来的更猛烈些吧！

Onlyou

已经辟谣啦。飓风RITA的强度有5级降为4级，而且方向也偏了点。美国股市收盘因此小幅上涨。

calicen

Gas price rumours cause panic across Canada

Last Updated Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:38:42 EDT CBC News
Rumours of gas price increases are causing lineups at pumps across Canada before Hurricane Rita even lands in the Gulf of Mexico.

<TABLE cellSpacing=4 cellPadding=0 width=220 align=right hspace="4"><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle> </TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle>Price for regular gas is at 167.4 cents a litre in Quebec City, Sept. 22, 2005. (CP PHOTO/Jacques Boissinot)
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>"There are a lot of folks out there who are running to get to a gas station and I would suggest that they shouldn't panic," said Steve Ecclestone, general manager of Ultramar, adding that his Montreal-based company was closely monitoring the market and wasn't planning immediate increases. "It's crazy. It's just a lot of fear, panic and rumours going on."

In Halifax, a website monitoring gas prices reported prices were holding at $1.11 per litre. But gossip of stations in other areas charging $2 per litre had panicky people running pumps dry.

"The rumours were insane -- everything from $2.25 a litre in Ontario to $1.90 in Halifax," said Jennifer Murphy, a supervisor at an Irving gas station outside Halifax.

The cost to fill up varies wildly across the country. Prices have reached $2.20 in Toronto Ont., $1.92 in Laval, Que., $1.79 in Glace Bay, N.S. and $1.29 in the Gulf Islands, B.C.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says reports of gasoline selling for over two dollars a litre in parts of Ontario create a false impression that there is a fuel shortage. McGuinty told reporters that he wants the federal Competition Bureau to find out why gas prices vary by as much as a dollar a litre.

Even Graham Conrad, executive director of the Retail Gasoline Dealers Association of Nova Scotia, rushed to fill up after hearing a report that prices in Ontario were topping $2 and were expected to go up to $1.80 in Halifax. "I had it in the back of my mind, as probably every other motorist in metro had, that we'd better fill up while we have the chance," Conrad said.

Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm said the province is powerless to influence the price of gas, but added he was monitoring the situation. "We can do what we can do to make sure people aren't being gouged; that the price is fair and is being determined by demand and not gouging," he said.

Bill Simpkins, Ottawa-based spokesman for the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute, said the panic buying would only cause more problems in terms of distribution and pricing. "Certainly, fear does drive up prices and we're concerned about that."

Most of the concern has to do with the 18 oil refineries in and near the Gulf of Mexico, which account for nearly one quarter of the refining capacity in the United States.

今天

因为飓风又要来了

破蛋蛋

省长 Ralph Klein 星期二许诺今年底之前给每位阿尔伯特省居民发放400元现金作为圣诞节礼物，让所有的阿尔伯特居民共同分享省政府巨额的财政盈余。听到这个消息后单身妈妈 Beth Ranger和她的三个女儿，从左到右分别是Brielle、Delainie 和 Jessica 欢呼雀跃，她们一家这个圣诞节将得到额外的2000块钱花。但是联邦政府和其他省纷纷对阿尔伯特省的着种做法 表示不满。

根据年初的财政预算案，阿尔伯特省今年的财政盈余是28亿元，但是由于油价暴涨，盛产石油的阿尔伯特省估计今年的财政盈余将会最终超过68亿元。多出来的40亿元财政盈余省政府打算三份之一用于省内的基础设施建设，三份之一用于储备基金，最后三份之一，也就是大概14亿元将返还给全体阿尔伯特省居民，每人大概可以分到400元左右。

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逍遥客

接着忽悠！！！

留言机

不是吧,我晚上去petro-canada加油才111.9/L的价格呢,也不见有人排队嘛,
看来今年冬季我家的暖气燃油费又要去上30%了,谁让我当初专挑大的房子买呢,西西... 政府怎幺不管管阿?:confused: ,都乱加价了,呵呵...

sofunny

哦，原来如此啊，怪不得俺下午顺便加油时，怎么那么长的队伍，想退都出不去了，害得俺耽误大半个小时去见妹妹。

Post by D'accord
今天上班的时候同事跟我说油价要涨到180以上了，吓得我呀，下班直奔加油站加了满满的……加油工人跟我说，今天忙了一天，他嗓子哑了，话都说不出来了。
看来是虚惊？