Government Services
February 18, 2010
The following is being
distributed at the request of the Public Utilities
Board's Petroleum Pricing Office (PPO):
Weekly
Adjustment of Maximum Prices of Regulated Petroleum
Products
Effective 12:01 a.m.
Thursday, February 18, 2010, the Public Utilities Board
set maximum prices for all regulated petroleum products
in all areas of the province, except where maximum price
adjustments have been suspended for the winter months.
Maximum fuel prices
changed as follows:
- all types of
gasoline motor fuel decreased by 0.6 or 0.7 cents
per litre (cpl) – depending on the HST rounding
impact;
- diesel motor fuel
decreased by 0.6 or 0.7 cpl – also depending on HST
rounding;
- furnace oil heating
fuel decreased by 0.45 cpl;
- stove oil heating
fuel decreased by 0.19 cpl; and,
- propane heating fuel
will see no change.
These maximum prices
reflect the change in the average benchmark price of the
products over the seven-day period ending Tuesday of
this week. As an example, the average benchmark price
for gasoline, as tracked on the New York Mercantile
Exchange (NYMEX) and converted to Canadian dollars,
decreased over the period by 0.5 cpl, resulting in a 0.6
cpl decrease, accounting for taxation and rounding. The
commodity market movements for the period were affected
to some extent by a higher Canadian dollar. Since fuel
on the commodity markets is priced in U.S. currency, a
higher Canadian dollar means it is not as expensive to
purchase these products.
The next scheduled price
change is Thursday, February 25, 2010.
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1.
Automotive Fuels - Maximum
Retail Pump Prices - Effective February 18, 2010.
2.
Heating Fuels - Maximum Tank Wagon (or**Tank Farm)
Prices - Effective February 18, 2010.
Media contact:
Michelle Hicks
Communications
1-866-489-8800,489-8837
mhicks@pub.nl.ca
or visit the board's website:
www.pub.nl.ca.
2010 02 18
11:50 a.m.
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