I'm whining about the price of gas .... because it directly affects the price of home fuel oil, and other necessities such as food. Where we live, we greatly depend on fossil fuels to heat our homes and most of our food is trucked in. There are a lot of elderly people and working poor here in the Maritimes who are going to have a hard, hard winter. These and the working poor live in substandard housing, older homes that are insufficiently insulated ... the price of vegetables, fruits are already pretty high here and the price can only go up further ... frankly it is going to be one hard winter here in the Canadian Maritimes, unless there is some sort of tax releif for these people. I agree with Ebbie that sin taxes are good, but is home heating fuel a sin?

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