Gas up 6 cents across N.L. before Victoria Day weekend

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· Posted: May 16, 2025 7:26 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

People getting acceptable to caput retired connected Newfoundland and Labrador's highways for a Victoria Day play of camping and question got a pugnacious astonishment Friday morning, erstwhile the terms of gasoline jumped by implicit six cents per litre.

The Public Utilities Board's play terms accommodation acceptable the terms of self-serve gasoline connected the Avalon Peninsula astatine conscionable nether $1.52 per litre.

Prices alteration crossed the remainder of the state depending connected location, but scope betwixt $1.52 and $1.67 per litre successful Newfoundland and betwixt $1.58 and $1.85 per litre successful Labrador.

Most different fuels besides accrued Friday.

Diesel roseate by 6.3 cents per litre, putting maximum prices betwixt $1.50 and $1.63 per litre successful Newfoundland and betwixt $1.62 and $1.91 per litre successful Labrador.

The terms of furnace lipid accrued by implicit 5.4 cents per litre, meaning customers successful Newfoundland volition wage betwixt $1.10 and $1.30 per litre depending connected their location.

Stove lipid accrued by implicit 5.5 cents per litre crossed Labrador West and Churchill Falls. That means maximum prices crossed the Big Land present scope betwixt $1.22 and $1.53 per litre depending connected location.

Propane saw the largest fluctuation of the week, and was the lone substance to alteration successful price. An 8.4 cent-per-litre driblet successful maximum prices mean they present scope betwixt $1 and $1.15 per litre successful Newfoundland and betwixt 86 cents and $1.11 per litre successful Labrador.

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