Gas price leaps up, heating oil and diesel tumble
A wild couple of weeks for petroleum product costs on P.E.I. continued on Friday.
The Island Regulatory and Appeals Fee adjusted costs in its common weekly evaluate.
The minimal worth of a litre of self-serve gasoline rose 9.2 cents in a single day to $1.942.
Diesel and heating oil costs, which each leaped up greater than 30 cents within the final week of April, had been down.
The minimal worth on the pump for diesel was down eight cents to $2.535, whereas the utmost worth for heating oil was down 7.3 cents to $2.072.
Each costs stay increased than they had been per week in the past.
Whereas evaluations are scheduled weekly, costs had been up on Thursday and Saturday along with Friday final week.
The massive will increase final week ended a month of relative calm in costs, following a curler coaster of worth modifications in March. World oil costs have been risky since Russia invaded Ukraine on the finish of February.
