Advertisement

Harvey-related flooding in Houston could raise gas prices in Metro Vancouver

Click to play video: 'Harvey to fuel gas price hike in Canada'
Harvey to fuel gas price hike in Canada
WATCH: Hurricane Harvey is already affecting gas supply which is turn is boosting demand. And you know what that means. Mike Drolet reports on what you can expect to pay at the pump – Aug 28, 2017

The flooding that’s hit Houston, Texas, in the wake of Hurricane Harvey could affect prices at the gas pumps in Metro Vancouver.

Houston is the oil and gas business hub of the United States and the flooding has already affected production in the country.

LISTEN: Harvey-related flooding in Houston could raise gas prices in Metro Vancouver

Online price tracker Gas Buddy, is predicting the already high prices in Metro Vancouver could jump by four to five cents a litre.

Story continues below advertisement

Senior Petroleum Analyst Dan McTeague says a number of refineries have either shut down or are flooded because of the natural disaster.

Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.

Get daily National news

Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.
By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.

“It looks like about 25 per cent of total U.S. gasoline production is likely at risk. We’ll probably get a better assessment Tuesday as to how many and how long they will be offline – no doubt that that will impact total U.S. supply and although it’s a far distance here from Vancouver or the Pacific Northwest, we can see what happens when there’s a run on supply.”

He says there was a 12 cent per litre increase in prices following Hurricane Ike in 2008.

Texas normally pumps out 5.6 million barrels of oil a day but due to the weather conditions, the state is now only able to produce about three million barrels a day.

Officials released more water from Houston-area reservoirs overwhelmed by now tropical storm Harvey early Monday in a move aimed at protecting the city’s downtown from devastating floods but that could still endanger thousands of homes, even as the fourth-largest city in the United States braced for more rain.

— With files from The Associated Press and CKNW

Sponsored content

AdChoices