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1.44 on the corner Esso here, in Calgary.
I went in, I say - "you made a mistake - it supposed to be 1.14"
She goes - "no."

We are the oil capital of Canada. As bad as it may sound - why can't we be protected by our own oil bank in a situation like this?

Easy way for retailers to excuse their long time hidden greed for extra profit?

As far as "limited resources"...don't let the "green-earthers" scare you..there's plenty of oil there yet for the future. We could continue the use of oil at current levels for over ten thousand years WITHOUT finding new sources of oil. It's there....so don't be believing everything these idiots are saying...

The fuel consumption is crazy-good: The combined rating is 3.5 litres per 100 kilometres, or 80 miles per gallon.

But the fuel tank is also crazy-small - just 22 litres, with 5 litres reserve. If you get max economy (like most cars, the Transport Canada numbers cannot usually be replicated in the real world) that will only take you 628 km.

In reality, you'll probably be filling up every 300-400 kilometres.

Still, in typical commute-mode, that might be every two or three days.

And I was never able to get more than twelve bucks worth of fuel into the car on any fill-up. You could get used to that.

Smarts, which start at about $16,700 and top out around $23,000, are sold in 46 out of Canada's 55 Mercedes-Benz dealerships, helped in part by customer word-of-mouth.

The Smart's Canadian success and it's absence from the U.S. market is more evidence of how drivers in the two countries have taken different forks in the road, says DesRosiers.

The entry-level auto segment - from subcompacts like the Smart to cars like the Toyota Corolla - make up 40 per cent of the Canadian market and growing.

"In America it's 22 per cent and declining," says DesRosiers.

The large luxury-sports segment - which includes the biggest SUVs - make up about 10 per cent of Canadian sales, compared with 27 per cent in the United States.

Canadians bought just over 10,000 large SUVs last year, while Americans bought one million.

But even before pump prices passed the $1 psychological threshold, Smart car dealers were selling out of the tiny two-seat runabouts, which resemble oversized athletic shoes on wheels.

"The Smart has been exceptionally successful," says auto industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers. "For the type of vehicle it is, it's really struck a chord in Canada."

Smart, a unit of automotive giant DaimlerChrysler, was launched in Canada last fall after six years in the European marketplace.

Sales of 2,390 cars as of July seem small in Canada's 1.5-million annual auto sales but DesRosiers says Smart has outsold a host of mainstream models, including BMW and Mercedes SUVs, Cadillac, Suzuki and Mini Cooper.

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