Outrage vs. GasolinePrices How come the gas companies are getting a free pass on gasoline prices now? Back when the prices first started spiking, people complained about gasoline taxes, or the price of crude oil rising from terrorism or just outright profiteering from the gas companies.

So what’s happened? The price of oil has remained constant for, what, a year now, and the Canadian Dollar has appreciated 10% compared to the price of oil. That means that for the same amount of money, I should be buying 10% more gasoline, right?

Then how come prices are hovering around $0.80 still?

The gas companies are profiteering.

I suppose they’re allowed: certainly if people are willing to pay that much for gas, they may as well sell it for that price. But what happened to the outrage? Are we limited to complaining once about something that is an injustice? Did we decide that it wasn’t an injustice after all?
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