OK. As we all know gas prices -- particularly for cars -- is high. Up here in Canada, the major gas player Petro Canada, naturally has the same excuses as everyone in that it's not their fault.

If that's true, how exactly did they manage in 2000 to "record annual net earnings of $893 million compared with $233 million in 1999, far outstripping its previous best year of $306 million in net earnings in 1997.". That's almost 300% growth! And we're supposed to believe that all this profit is because they're not ripping us off?