[news] We pay too little for gas, not too much.

[Resist!ca]

"Canadians live in a big, cold country. We depend on fossil fuels to heat the place in winter and to transport virtually everything we need to survive over vast distances within the country. On a per capita basis we are the world's largest trading nation, totally dependent on fossil fuels to connect us materially to the world. Thanks to production agriculture and industrial food processing, the food we eat now "contains" more fossil energy than solar energy. In fact, for all the paper wealth being generated by high-tech and Internet stocks, the country's entire post-industrial economy still floats on a stream of oil and gas."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/202830/252