Driving in Montreal got more expensive over the weekend gas prices inched toward $2 per litre mark as the war in the Middle East enters its fourth week.<\/p>\n
According to the gas price tracking GasBuddy, the average price of a litre of petrol in Montreal was $1.90 as of Monday. Some Montrealers reported shelling out as high $2.34 Sunday for a litre of gas, on Essence Montreal.<\/p>\n
Diesel prices were considerably higher at with drivers reporting spending up to $2.55 a litre.<\/p>\n
The average price across Canada was at $1.72 Sunday, according to CAA. The average for the previous week was eight cents cheaper at $1.31 and 40 cents cheaper last month at $1.31.<\/p>\n
The global price for oil and gas has been steadily climbing since the United States and Israel launched missile attacks against Iran.<\/p>\n
In response, Iran has blocked and attacked some oil shipments along the Strait of Hormuz, a passageway that about 20 per cent of the world\u2019s oil usually passes through.<\/p>\n
The price of\u00a0Brent\u00a0crude, the international standard,\u00a0has zigzagged from roughly $70 per barrel before the Iran war began to as high as $119.50 last week. Last Friday, the price for Brent crude closed at $112.19 per barrel while benchmark U.S. crude closed at $98.32 per barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Driving in Montreal got more expensive over the weekend gas prices inched toward $2 per litre mark as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-555353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}