Ottawa gas prices continue to soar, up 27 per cent post-Harvey

Retail prices averaged 128.2 cents per litre for regular unleaded gas across the Ottawa region Saturday, up 7.8 cents per litre from Friday 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.
The increases in prices across the region have been significantly faster than has been the case across Ontario, where