NS gas up 3.6 cents overnight
Posted Dec 28, 2012 07:19:34 AM.
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As the year wraps up drivers in Nova Scotia are forking over more money at the gas pump.
The Utility and Review Board has reset the price of gas for the final time in 2012, increasing the price 3.6 cents a litre before the New Year.
Drivers in Halifax are now paying $1.268 for a litre for regular self serve.
The regulatory board also increased the price of diesel by 2.5 cents a litre, which is now selling for to $1.327 in Metro.
A year a go today, Halifax drivers were paying about a penny and a half less for gasoline, and six and a half cents less for diesel.
This time last year, oil sold for $99.65 US a barrel, $9 higher than Thursday’s close of $90.87 US.
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