Ottawa gas prices continue rising, up 27 per cent from month ago

Retail prices edged up another 1.2 cents per litre Sunday morning to 129.4 cents per litre for regular unleaded gas across the Ottawa region Saturday, according to GasBuddy.com, a website that tracks energy prices across North America.
On average, prices were up a dramatic 27.5 per litre from a month ago, before Hurricane Harvey shuttered one-third of America’s oil refining capacity.
Prices surged Sunday in Kanata, where the average price at the pump jumped 8.5 cents per litre from Saturda