{"id":883613,"date":"2026-09-04T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883613\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:46:09","slug":"gta-labour-day-long-weekend-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883613\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA Labour Day long weekend gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">If you are driving somewhere this long weekend, it\u2019s best to fill up your gas tanks today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cToday is probably the best day we\u2019re going to get at 182.9 (cents per litre) in the GTA,\u201d says Dan McTeague, the president of Canadians for Affordable Energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou might find some discounts in the smaller communities on your destinations if you happen to be heading to cottage country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He tells CP24 that gas will rise to $1.83 a litre on Saturday and then $1.87 per litre on Sunday, a price that drivers in the GTA have not seen since the middle of May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McTeague says he expects the price of gas will then hold until Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He believes gas prices will drop about seven cents a litre in the coming weeks when supply switches from the summer blend to the winter blend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McTeague says it\u2019s because the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-20\/us-allows-early-sales-of-winter-gasoline-to-help-curb-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-20\/us-allows-early-sales-of-winter-gasoline-to-help-curb-prices\">has approved the early sale<\/a> of winter blend gasoline to curb prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As for diesel, prices will drop from $2.43 per litre on Thursday to $2.36 a litre on Sunday, he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat could be sort of a something we envy come the cold winter months when it could get a lot closer to $2.75, maybe even $2.80 a litre in Toronto, $3 a litre across Canada,\u201d McTeague adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He notes that drivers are seeing unprecedented diesel prices because it is in very short supply around the world amid the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you are driving somewhere this long weekend, it\u2019s best to fill up your gas tanks today. \u201cToday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":["post-883613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-apple-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883613","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=883613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}