Can Suncor make it through the industry's current doldrums? For clues, let's take a look at the company's most recent quarterly report. Is now the time to bail on Suncor? Canadian energy investors are getting a toughlesson in leverage. Squeezing bitumen out of the Alberta oil sands is costly. Because of this, operators runon razor-thin profit margins. When oil prices rise, their thin margins (along with share prices) can skyrocket. But when energyprices drop, this leverage works the other way.