{"id":454,"date":"2005-09-06T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=454"},"modified":"2005-09-06T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T21:43:00","slug":"gas-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Gas Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;cid=1125924611003&#038;call_pageid=968332188492&amp;col=968705899037&#038;t=TS_Home&amp;DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&amp;tacodalogin=yes\">poll in the Star <\/a>yesterday. Here&#8217;s the lead:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">MONTREAL: Almost half of Canadians wanted to see their petroleum resources and their gas companies nationalized as fuel prices hit record levels, a new poll suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The Leger Marketing telephone survey of 1,500 people was conducted between Aug. 24 and Aug. 31, the bulk being done before the devastating effects of hurricane Katrina were felt.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No doubt this will lead to even more saber rattling in Alberta and more talk of a new NEP.<\/p>\n<p>My view? The higher gas prices go, the better. Prices in Canada are still far lower than Europe and the only way we&#8217;ll ever get people to reduce their fuel consumption is by higher prices at the pump.<\/p>\n<p>That said, energy use and gas prices have traditionally had a lot of impact at voters come election time, so there&#8217;s definitely some room for any of the parties to make huge political gains with an appealing policy on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting poll in the Star yesterday. Here&#8217;s the lead: MONTREAL: Almost half of Canadians wanted to see their petroleum resources and their gas companies nationalized as fuel prices hit record levels, a new poll suggests. The Leger Marketing telephone survey of 1,500 people was conducted between Aug. 24 and Aug. 31, the bulk being done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}