It was only a week ago that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced that he was going to let domestic fuel prices go to international market levels.
Look at what has happened in Nigeria since! Riots, bombings, you name it. The Nigerian people aren't stupid. As Africa's biggest oil exporter the two-dollar-a-day folks in Nigeria, i.e. the 99%, don't understand why they should be paying $100 plus a barrel for the stuff that comes out of their ground for under ten dollars a barrel.
They're not fooled by that "invisible hand of the free market" bullshit.
Yet here in Canada, I have never in my lifetime heard the question raised why we, unlike most oil exporting countries, are forced to pay the international price for a commodity that comes out of our own soil.
The question is not even on our radar.
Could it be because "our" oil sector is controlled lock stock and 50 gallon drum by foreign oil companies?
Could it be because our energy policy is written by the foreign oil companies that control our resources?
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