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Tiparith
19th May 2007, 18:23
Okay so the price of gas is going up and there just bending us over left right and center.

What I plan to do is make human barricades in front of as many Petro Canada's as possible, I'm not talking in one city, I mean across the country. I need anyone in Canada to speak up now.. Here's the plan:

Okay so we form commitees in every city we can. These commitees stir up the local populace into civil unrest. When these commitee's have a large amount of support ( a few hundred volunteers) they organize to blockade every Petro Canada for as many days as possible. If you can't be there 24/7 do a few days on and few days off. The purpose is to make the company lose as much patroage as possible.

Why Petro-Canada you ask? They used to be a crown corporation. And if/when somebody asks what we're demanding we tell them that the goverment should re-nationalize PetroCan and sell gas a only a few cents profit. So if it took 50cents to produce the gas and stay afloat and all that then they could charge like 55 cents. That way it is people's needs before profit. I think we could really scare the bastards by getting every pissed off driver to stand alongside the reds and blacks and proclaim they won't tolerate it anymore.

So what I'm asking for is any suggestions you may have and anyone who wants to become an organizer please speak up. We'll work together to spread this thing and by the time gas hits $1.40 or $1.50 we'll be ready to protest hardcore and make our demands met.

Added: Perhaps its time to mention that I don't consider this paticularly revolutionary. I just think that with gas prices as high as they've ever been in Canada and more and more people talking about it we could really inspire the working class to move against this price goudging. And if they know that they can get things changed then we could possibly find it easier to move people next time we need to. As well it gives us all a chance to talk with the average voter while protesting the same thing.

Janus
20th May 2007, 03:16
We'll work together to spread this thing and by the time gas hits $1.40 or $1.50 we'll be ready to protest hardcore and make our demands met.
$1.50? Wow, gas prices in the US are over $3 a gallon.

Tiparith
20th May 2007, 18:12
Yeah but remember I'm not talking gallons, if I were talking gallons it would be something like $4.50/gallon, I think, I don't really know. The imperial system confuses me.

Comrade Marcel
21st May 2007, 02:23
Canada isn't like Jamaica. People aren't poor enough to get pissed off about gas prices to the point of civil unrest and forming barracades. We live in an imperialist country were people pay $5 for 300ml of bottled water at Hockey games. They might get pissed enough to complain in front of a news camera when gas hits $1.50 a litre, but that's about it.

Die Neue Zeit
21st May 2007, 03:35
I want Petro-Can to be under a nationalized umbrella that includes EnCana and Suncor, BUT FOR ENTIRELY DIFFERENT REASONS.

When one sees that over 80% of the world's oil reserves are controlled by states, when one sees even entrepreneurial state oil firms like Brazil's Petrobras and especially Norway's Statoil (which is making inroads into Canadian oil sands (http://www.neurope.eu/view_news.php?id=73517)), one can't help but go with the flow and join "the new seven sisters" (Financial Times article) (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/471ae1b8-d001-11db-94cb-000b5df10621.html).

And I did quite a bit of work on upstream oil operations throughout the world quite recently, so feel free to ask me questions.

lithium
21st May 2007, 23:30
If anyone's interested:

http://www.aaireland.ie/petrolprices/

Pawn Power
23rd May 2007, 19:02
Originally posted by [email protected] 19, 2007 09:16 pm

We'll work together to spread this thing and by the time gas hits $1.40 or $1.50 we'll be ready to protest hardcore and make our demands met.
$1.50? Wow, gas prices in the US are over $3 a gallon.
Well thats per liter, so 3.8 liters per gallon...so its much more then 3$ a gallon.