The oil companies control the price of oil per barrel and if it gets too low they have the government tell the other OPEC nations to cut back on production to raise the price.
If the Gateway Pipeline goes through you can expect the price of fuel to go up, as the company's will say we are no longer on the North American market but the world market. All oil companies need to make a profit, but in 2007 just one oil company made $5.5 billion dollar profit in three months. In my way of thinking, that is excessive.
Ray Maze
Prince George
