N.B. gas price spike

2008年9月14日17年前

With gas prices spiking across the country on Friday, a consumer advocate is warning New Brunswickers to fill their tanks before midnight.
The price of gas is likely going to go up on Friday night because of Hurricane Ike and the threat it may pose to refineries on the Gulf Coast, said consumer advocate George Murphy.
Motorists in many Canadian cities found that the price had risen as much as 13 cents per litre on Friday morning.
"The Katrina scenario and the Rita scenario, as they played through the last time, lasted about six days in the marketplace, so try to make this tank full of gas stretch for at least the next six days before you have to go and fill up again, and perhaps you can avoid that big financial bite that's coming," Murphy said.
Worried traders in New York pushed spot gasoline prices up on Thursday, likely triggering New Brunswick's rarely used interrupter clause, said CBC News' Robert Jones.
The clause forces New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board to reset prices when price changes in New York exceed eight cents a litre in a single day.
In New Brunswick's regulated market, unleaded self-serve gas prices dropped about three cents on Thursday to about $1.28 a litre. That cost wouldn't normally change for a week.
The changes on the stock market will likely see prices in New Brunswick rise by about 12 cents, Murphy said.
The Energy and Utilities Board is not permitted to discuss price changes until they have occurred and will not confirm if the interrupter clause has been triggered.
Any price change would apply only to gasoline, not diesel or heating oil.
Consumers have until midnight before the new price takes effect.