Gas Prices Rise, Diesel Sees Huge Increase

As forecast yesterday by the Consumer Group for Fair Gas Prices, Fuel costs are up across the board this morning, some substantially.

According to Spokesman George Murphy the maximum price that can be charged for gas climbs by a third of a cent a litre.

However diesel is up almost eleven and a half cents on the island and more than four and a half cents in Labrador.

Furnace oil climbs by almost three cents, stove oil by almost three and a half, and propane by just over a cent.