Editing National Energy Program (section)

==Price of oil==
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[[Image:Oil Prices Since 1861.svg|thumb|400px|Long-term oil prices, 1861-2007 (top line adjusted for inflation).]]
Throughout the 1950s, the 1960s, and the 1970s, the retail price of petroleum in Canada consistently remained close to the price of gasoline in the United States and was often lower than prices seen in the US, especially during the 1970s price spikes. The NEP, which raised the price of fuel in the West and coincided with a hike in provincial gas taxes in Ontario and Quebec,<ref name="Montreal_Gazette_1985">{{cite news |work=Montreal Gazette |date=8 June 1985 |title=Equity markets lose momentum |location=Montreal |access-date=27 January 2015 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19850608&id=KyAyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=36UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4911,4256194}}</ref> made the retail price of gasoline in Canada become noticeably higher than that of the US, a trend that has continued ever since.