[Onelifetogive]

Tell that to Canadians whose gasoline and natural gas prices have gone through the roof over the last 25 years even as the extraction of oil and gas in Canada has accelerated dramatically.

Help me understand. Was Canada's energy prices WAY below world prices then or WAY above them now?

[Alberta's Child]

They were way below it.

It's interesting how this works when the country you're dealing with is a huge exporter of commodities and has a large trade surplus with its major trading partners. It effectively takes on a lot of the characteristics of a Third World country where it ends up exporting things that are increasingly unaffordable to its own citizens.

I was at a conference a few months ago in Pittsburgh, and they're starting to describe the entire state of Pennsylvania that way.