This frontier town five hours north of Edmonton is the gateway to the Athabaska Oil Sands, the second-largest proven oil reserve in the world. With $100-a-barrel oil making its costly extraction from the tar sands profitable, crude exports to the U.S. have spiked to record highs - and the exploding industry has drawn some 20,000 fortune hunters since 2005, pushing rents into the stratosphere. One-bedrooms average $2,200; some are predicting that will soon climb to $3,500. Vacancies are rare, and landlords can name their price, often for apartments in rundown buildings with moldy interiors.

this is canada so thank you american liberals most countries are getting wise to the black gold regardless but we can thank our liberals for todays gas prices

There are a number of reasons for the price of oil but the most obvious one is greed by the oil producing nations They can spin it any way they want but it still comes back greed. True it’s a non-renewable energy source but so is our time on earth and wages don’t go up for every hour we lose while working. I’m a believer in encouraging domestic oil production and discouraging importing oil.from what I have heard in the past,the opposite is now practiced. I’m still wondering where all that oil from the ALASKA pipe line is going and for what price per barrel. If we must pay high gas prices let’s try to keep the money in the states and not finance wealthy anti-american nations around the globe. You know it eases some of the pain at the pumps when I go to a full service service station that pumps the gas,cleans your windows and tells you if they spot a low tire or something,but that’s getting to be a very rare bird.

stopped at exxon station in mobile, pump show’s I was able to pump almost 19 gallons of gas into my 15 gallon gas tank.  Maybe I could have gotten 21 gallons if the pump had not shut off a $75.00 and my tank was not empty, not even on the red.
I guess everyone is out to screw everyone, it’s a shame that the $ is the new religion........