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Gas prices head back up

After several weeks of tumbling gas prices, the price at the pump has inched upward.

Kelowna stations are now charging 99.9 cents for a litre of unleaded gasoline.

The price had been as low as 95.9 cents just a day ago.

Gas prices have been steadily declining as the price for a barrel of oil did the same.

However, the price for a barrel of oil jumped eight per cent Friday closing at $48.24 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

It was the largest one-day percentage increase in more than two and a half years.

Petro Canada's daily wholesale price for a litre of gas was pegged at nearly 53 cents Friday. It was as low as the mid 40s a week ago.

Filling up at the Chevron station at Highway 97 and Pandosy, Curtis Dodd of Kelowna griped about Okanagan prices in comparison to the Lower Mainland, where drivers pay a hefty TransLink tax on their fuel.

"I'm heading down there now, so I checked the price."

Gasbuddy.com showed the lowest price in B.C. at the Abbotsford and Prince George Costco outlets – 85.9 cents a litre. The lowest price in Vancouver was 101.9 just before 5 p.m.



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