Gas prices in Ottawa are set to rise this weekend after a slight uptick overnight.
Analyst Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, says the price at the pumps will increase across Ontario on Saturday, with the price in Ottawa going up 4 cents per litre to an average of 151.9 cents per litre. This follows a 1 cent increase on Friday.
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McTeague says the jump in prices is related to concerns over violence in the Middle East.
“If there’s a shortage or a potential for a shortage or some kind of conflict that would disrupt the normal supply of how oil or its byproducts like gasoline and diesel get distributed and made, then it has an effect on all of us,” he told CTV News Ottawa in an interview.
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