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A consultant hired by the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board has recommended that gasoline retailers be allowed to increase what they charge at the pumps.
The recommendation could mean a hike of 1.5 to two cents per litre.
The board, which has hearings planned for early next year, would still have to approve the idea.
New Brunswick retailers can now charge a maximum of five cents on every litre of self-serve they sell and 7.5 cents on every litre of full serve. Those figures have been frozen since 2006, when the province adopted gas price regulation.
The consulting company Gardiner Pinfold has said gas stations should be allowed to increase prices to cover inflation and other costs since that time.
The consultants made no recommendations in regards to the pricing of heating fuel, saying that not enough heating oil companies and no propane companies co-operated with the study.
New Brunswick has some of the highest propane prices in Canada. The maximum price in the province is 17 cents per litre higher than in Newfoundland and Labrador and 20 cents per litre higher than in P.E.I., which both regulate prices for home heating fuel.
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