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Originally posted by The Highroller If this price increase causes that much of an increase at bars, a lot of people are going to be pissed off.

ok...so maybe i was exaggerating...but not by much...as a former beer server at the rogers center, I can assure you that minor increases in price for the supplier lead to much bigger jumps in price for the consumer...especially in bars,clubs,sporting events etc...

i never understood why people would drink cheap bilge water, because clearly they aren't drinking these crap for taste.

There are cheaper ways to get drunk than buck a beer.

I'd rather not drink, if my only option is to drink Laker or Lakeport or whatever.

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Originally posted by Special K beer is much cheaper in europe ... and they are far more socially responsible with it

There are a lot of cultural differences between here and europe that cause that, though. Nothing to do with price.

It's really fascinating to see how badly us Canadians are at mercy of the LCBO compared to other countries.

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Originally posted by INFERNO2K It's really fascinating to see how badly us Canadians are at mercy of the LCBO compared to other countries.

us Ontarians... LCBO is in Ontario only.... thus the O...

FYI, the high cost of alcohol here is largely due to excise or sin taxes levied on alcohol... more then 50% of the cost of your alcohol purchased at Brewer's Retail (sorry; The Beer Store... I'm showing my age) or the Liquor Control Board of Ontario is tax. Those taxes are set by the Fed and Provincial governments, not by the LCBO or Brewer's Retail.

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Originally posted by Special K beer is much cheaper in europe ... and they are far more socially responsible with it

Not far more socially responsible.

I used to believe this until I read some oxford journals that outlined how there are just as many alcohlics/alcohol abusers and alcohol related deaths overseas as there are over here. And In my travels to europe I noticed the english tourists terrorizing the pubs not canadians or americans.

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Originally posted by Abercrombie It's a price increase on the shittiest beers on the shelves anyways.

Exactly!

Heineken or Stella for me.

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Originally posted by Special K beer is much cheaper in europe ... and they are far more socially responsible with it

uuuh you're kidding right?

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EU is the heaviest drinking region of the world The European Union is the heaviest drinking region of the world, with each adult drinking 11 litres of pure alcohol each year � a level over two-and-a-half times the rest of the world�s average (WHO 2004).1 This high level is in fact a considerable fall from the highest point of over 15 litres in the mid-1970s, a peak which followed a period of rising consumption levels across most of Europe. Since then there has been a general plateau across Europe, with the exception of a substantial fall in the wine-producing countries of southern Europe, and a continuing rise in alcohol consumption in Ireland. This contrasts with persistently rising alcohol consumption in south-east Asia and the western Pacific (see Figure 4.1), although drinking in the Americas (at just under 7 litres), the next highest-consuming world region, follows a similar trend to Europe.

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Originally posted by Zentac_75 And In my travels to europe I noticed the english tourists terrorizing the pubs not canadians or americans.

as much as Mother Russia consumes its vodka like water, I've never seen anyone get more tanked then Brits and Irish do, gosh! Having lived in Cyprus for 7 years, every summer I've seen my town just drown in them

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Originally posted by chinamon

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lol evan ur worse than me

They increased the price of beer to increase revenues. That's what governments do. The reason they do it is because noone says a fucking word about anything. Same reason we built the 407, then sold it, and now pay the highest tolls in North America. Noone says anything.

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Originally posted by dEsidEL the extra $1.60 isn't the issue .. what's messed up is the fact that the gov't is even involved in setting the base price to begin with

+1 and the fact that they portray it as social responsibility (engineering) even though it was the taxman that recommended it.

This should be proof of the real mandate behind most of these "safety" and as of late, "environmental" initiatives. It's all about the cashola.

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