Prices at the pump continue on a downward trend in Lethbridge

For the first time in close to a month, the price of gasoline in the Bridge City has dropped to under $1.70 a litre and, in some cases, closer to $1.65. 

While Lethbridge had been enjoying some of the lowest prices in the province last month, it quickly changed when the price at the pump spiked by 20 cents to $1.86 in one shot. 

Canadian Taxpayer Federation Allberta director Kris Simms says her group is lobbying the newly-appointed provincial finance minister, Jason Nixon, to immediately re-implement a 13-cent-per-litre fuel subsidy.

“Because the price of oil spiked just after the last budget…like days after, we’re having to drag on through this entire fiscal quarter until July 1st before the government is, basically, are forced to by law, through, to give us that fuel tax relief.”