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The Arab embargo on oil to the United States has caus- ed the Americans to put A through some rather drastic measures concerning oil use. The one that has hurt the Americans the most has been the restrictions put on the use of gasoline and th- eir cars. The Americans have been taking travel by car for granted for years. The oil shortage is diss- olving one of the great American dreams. The oil shortage in the United States is going to have' some rather interesting correlations to Canada.

Even though 90% of the oil from Alberta goes to-the United States,when sold as gasoline in the U.S. it is always more inexpensive than in Canada (even when one figures in the differe— ncg_between an Imperial & an American gallonT. Since the oil shortage began the U.S. has allowed the price of gasoline to go up. It has already gone up over 15¢ a gallon. If it contin— ues to increase it will , soon be more expensive than in Canada.

The President just passed a bill that would restrict all speed limits in the U.S. to 55 miles per hour. It will take longer in certain States to put it into eff- ect but all States should comply by the beginning og February. This is really going to slow down travel since most super highways in the U.S. used to have a Speed limit of 70. Canada however, is not going to p put such a bill througha

Another bill that the Pre- sident has put through is that all gas stations must be closed between 9:00 p.m. Sat. through until Mon. morning. This limits all travel on weekends and puts quite a restriction on people travelling long dis- tances by car. This also means a lot of people run-

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Since the gas stations ar receiving less gasoline, ’ they have either shortened theirehours‘to,something, like 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. or have put restrictions on the amounts of purchases such as 5 gallons per cust- omer. This has caused many people to become gas sta- , tion hoppers, going to may- be three or four to get their tank full.

With gasoline so hard to get and the demand so high the idea of the nice gas station attendant has dis- sappeared. They don't have to wait for customers beca-

use they usually have a » , line up of cars waiting for

gasoline. They have no rea- son to be nice to you since most of the people that co- me in end up blaming the

gas shortage on the gas st-

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ions on them verbally.

None of these things have happened in Canada though. With Canadians always pro- moting Americans crossing

the border to the north in order to see the wilderness and Spend lots of money, it will look better and better. Americans have always loved vacations where they throw the kids in the car and go. With speed limits higher \ than 55 miles per hour, no restrictions on gas and pr- obably less expensive than_ in the U.S., Canada will be quite the place to go. If the situation remains the same next summer I think i there will be a huge influx of Americans into Canada (if they can get enough ga— soline to reach the border)!

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