PART VI
OFFENCES IN RELATION TO COMPETITION

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45. (1) Every one who conspires, combines, agrees or arranges with another person

(a) to limit unduly the facilities for transporting, producing, manufacturing, supplying, storing or dealing in any product,

(b) to prevent, limit or lessen, unduly, the manufacture or production of a product or to enhance unreasonably the price thereof,

(c) to prevent or lessen, unduly, competition in the production, manufacture, purchase, barter, sale, storage, rental, transportation or supply of a product, or in the price of insurance on persons or property, or

(d) to otherwise restrain or injure competition unduly,

is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding ten million dollars or to both.

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How is it that oil prices across Canada are all more or less the same? Can't we discourage this kind of competitions? I believe if we can manage to break up these axis's of evil we could destabilize gas prices and cause them to fluctuate preferably to inflate so as to discourage people from using petroleum and other crude oil products and encourage them to use natural cleaner renewable resources that are safer for our environment and won't need to kill people with wars to tap these resources.

A government is suppose to protect it's citizens if we can prove that Oil has more harmful affects to Canadian citizens not only environmentally but economically perhaps we could encourage legislator to be enforce or improved in order to protect us from the harm of cured oil.

And hopefully just hope we could start a trend that would spread across the globe

P.S. I'm sure there is many things we could us in Canadian to help us we have to research carefully and then make a class action against the Canadian oil companies we should have faith and work with are judicial system go with the flow and get them to work for us not protest them and intimidate them all the time the law isn't the enemy it's the rich who think they are above

[ 30 May 2003: Message edited by: Justice ]

Yes, I'd like to see better use of resources, too. I really think we need better urban, and suburban, planning. The trend is to more sprawl and greater commuting distances. One has to drive much too far to work, play or shop. And since shopping malls are way out, one has to have a large vehicle to haul stuff. It becomes a cycle of waste.

Alternative Fuels Data Center
http://www.afdc.doe.gov/

I know the fuel and technology exist they probably have for many years.

The people who got whacked the most in 1973 and 1979 weren't rich people who filled up their gas hogs blithely unaware of the large runups in oil prices - it was the working stiffs who had to get to their jobs on time and couldn't just all magically run out and trade in their old heaps for new, smaller cars.

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as a result cities in Europe are high-density and amenable to walkers rather than drivers.

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I don't know about that DrConway. I thought that European pedestrians cross the continent crossed the road at their peril. At least so was my personal observation during my last visit.

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If you increase the price of gasoline a little at a time, every increase means an increment of people will choose to bypass cars in favor of public transit or electric vehicles or whatever. Europe's strategy has been along these lines and as a result cities in Europe are high-density and amenable to walkers rather than drivers.

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Yeh, but also look at the North American way. In Europe (when I was living there 2001-2002), things are "Closer" than than in North America. Populations are closer, and even living in the countryside, is not really that far out of town. What the North Americans need to do, is improve Public Transit in many cities, including small ones. But before we can do that, we must have an area where the buses will go out to, to reach the maximum amount of people. Bus Companies will not be happy if they had to go out of their way to reach a very unpopulated area of the region. In Belgium, I could take a bus from my city to a city which was like 20-30 min by car. Reason for this...? There are more people living close together, even in the rural areas of Europe. An increase in prices is Not going to help much, for people living in the Rural parts of canada, because for them, the car is the ONLY way of transportation, even if they would prefere to take Public Transit.