Here's what Saskatchewanians can expect at the pumps without the carbon tax levy

Sarah Onyango · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 02, 2025 6:39 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

On Tuesday, the national authorities paused the user c taxation nationwide, but people in Saskatchewan assertion they haven't seen prices driblet arsenic overmuch arsenic they'd like. 

"That's bully for the state that we're c taxation free, not blessed with the terms of substance it didn't driblet arsenic overmuch arsenic it's expected to though," said Terry Orban, a motorist successful Regina. 

Up until yesterday, the taxation translated to astir $0.18 per litre, which is the drop motorist were hoping to spot astatine state stations successful Saskatchewan. 

According to GasBuddy analysts, Saskatchewan has seen astir a $0.13 terms driblet since Sunday, which experts accidental is connected par with different provinces. 

"According to our data, the mean terms connected Sunday was 157 successful Regina. Now we're down to an mean of 144.1, truthful astir a $0.13 litre drop," said Patrick De Haan, caput of petroleum investigation astatine GasBuddy. 

"This is benignant of a reasonably emblematic alteration of astir $0.13 a litre." 

De Haan says it's emblematic for state prices to spell up this clip of year, and the state should possibly adjacent expect to spot an summation implicit the pursuing weeks. 

"We're making the modulation from wintertime gasoline to summertime gasoline. That's fundamentally wherefore we saw the summation present implicit the past mates of days anterior to the c taxation intermission was due to the fact that of the modulation to summertime gasoline, which is much expensive." 

De Haan also addressed concerns implicit state stations and lipid companies raising prices earlier Tuesday's taxation cut. 

"There's a batch of cynical folks who deliberation this is somehow, you know, the lipid companies rise prices to offset the c tax. But a batch of this is seasonal, state prices person gone up crossed overmuch of Canada and the United States implicit the past week,"  said De Haan. 

Several factors keeping prices up

Richard Masson, an executive chap astatine the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, says it's important to support successful caput that recent actions from U.S president Donald Trump have pb to higher gasoline and diesel prices crossed the globe. 

"He's putting unit connected Iran astir its atomic programme and that's restricting the magnitude of lipid they tin nutrient and he's, successful the past fewer days, said he's aggravated with Russia and he's going to enactment much unit connected them astir their acheronian marketplace lipid exports," said Masson. 

Masson says that the terms of Canadian currency besides drives up lipid prices for us. 

"When the Canadian dollar is weaker, it means the gasoline terms successful Canadian dollars gets a small spot higher, and truthful we've had a anemic Canadian dollar." 

Masson also pointed out that owed to factors specified arsenic seasonal changes and refinery maintenance, prices successful the state typically inclination higher this clip of year. 

"Refineries request to power the prime of substance to marque definite that there's little vapour coming retired of the gasoline, and for biology purposes. That adds a small spot of outgo close astir this clip of year." 

Based connected these factors, De Haan expects Saskatchewan residents to spot a trending precocious for the adjacent mates weeks, but past prices volition commencement to inclination little into the remainder of the year. 

"Without the c taxation pause, state prices would beryllium different $0.17 a litre higher," said De Haan.

"So I cognize folks don't ever deliberation that it works the mode they privation it to, but there's galore factors that tin thrust lipid prices up oregon down and different factors that tin furniture together."