Gas prices across the BC Interior have dropped on Tuesday.
The lowest price is being seen in Grand Forks where the local Super Save gas station is charging 121.9 c/l at the pump, according to GasBuddy.com.
Meanwhile, in the Central Okanagan, the lowest gas prices are being seen at a Super Save on Highway 33 with customers paying 128.9 c/l as of Tuesday afternoon.
The Rutland Canco, the Centex on Highway 33 and the Petro-Canada on Clements Avenue in Peachland are all charging 134.9 c/l.
The Petro-Canada on Ross Road in West Kelowna is sitting at 136.9 c/l.
Meanwhile, in the Kamloops area, the Shell on Dallas Drive is seeing 135.9 c/l at the pumps.
Kamloops’ Costco is charging 136.9 c/l.
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Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said some recent refinery outages in Washington due to maintenance led to a spike in gas prices in recent weeks.
De Haan explained that when that unplanned outage happened, it impacted the amount of supply for summer gas, which was needed for just a few more days.
Now that refineries are back to normal operation, the transition to lower-cost winter has started, which is expected to bring some relief.
“Now that we’ve gotten to the winter gasoline transition point, the amount of available gasoline is much higher,” he explained. “The winter blend of gasoline is much easier to make.”
De Haan said that abundant supply is expected to push prices down and areas of BC that haven’t seen a drop, can expect to see lower prices in the next week or two.
The full transition, which is done in three stages, to the winter gas supply will be done in about late November-December. Things will then begin to transition back and by June 1, 2026 gas stations will only be able to sell summer gas.
As of Tuesday, the average across BC is 162.1 c/l which is actually up half a cent from Monday.
But prices are down 3.9 cents from last week’s average.
The national leverage for gas is sitting at 142.3 c/l, which is up 1 cent from Monday but down 0.9 cents from last week.
