It’s costing more to fill up at the pumps and we’re told fuel prices may continue to climb.

Clearview Co-op general manager, Henry Nickel, says fuel costs are impacted by many things.

“All kinds of political unrest and so on, very often causes fuel (prices) to increase,” he explains. “There's shortages created, for whatever reason.”

In addition to that, we are paying carbon tax on fuel, which is at 9 cents on gasoline. The carbon tax on diesel is even higher than that.

“Then, every time the price goes up, the GST is always on the final price,” Nickel says.

So, the higher the cost of fuel, the more GST we pay. And that brings up the total price we pay at the pumps.

$93 a barrel – the highest level since 2014,” says DeHaan.

“We are also entering a time of year that gas prices do tend to go up as Canadian gasoline switches from winter to summer gasoline in the months ahead, we see the demand start to go up, and at the same time, refineries perform maintenance work - which limits capacity.”