Gasoline prices fall across Nova Scotia

A new poll shows 42 per cent of Nova Scotians are are driving less due to the price of fuel. (Nick Blakeney, CityNews photo)

By Shelli Summers

Posted Dec 5, 2025 07:14:31 AM.

Last Updated Dec 5, 2025 10:43:48 AM.

A small dip in the price of gasoline as we head into the first weekend of December.

In its weekly adjustment Friday morning, the Nova Scotia Energy Board dropped the price of a litre of regular self-serve by three cents to 136.0.

The cost of diesel has not changed, with the price holding steady at 166.1.

This time last year, gas was 153.3 and the cost of diesel was 171.2.

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