{"id":688527,"date":"2026-05-23T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/688527\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:29:09","slug":"public-utilities-board-announces-further-drop-in-fuel-and-heating-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/688527\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Utilities Board Announces Further Drop in Fuel and Heating Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gas-gasoline-fuel-price-pump-pub-gas-station-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Public Utilities Board Announces Further Drop in Fuel and Heating Costs\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>There was another drop in the price of gas overnight. The two cent decrease follows an 8-cent reduction the night before. That puts the price at just under $2.00 per litre on the Avalon Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel on the island is down by almost 5 cents while in Labrador West it is 6 1\/2 cents less expensive.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Utilities Board also reduced the price of furnace oil on the island by 4 cents, and stove oil in Labrador West by 6 cents.<\/p>\n<p>The next scheduled price adjustment comes first thing Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) There was another drop in the price of gas overnight. The two cent decrease follows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-688527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688527","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=688527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}