gasoline

Premier Doug Ford feels a national oil pipeline would help keep gasoline prices down in Ontario.

Prices have skyrocketed in recent days due to the war in Iran.

In northwestern Ontario, they have spiked to as high as $1.75 a litre.

Ford says that having Canadian oil refined in the country reduces the need for outside supplies.

“Let’s start getting a pipeline built across our country,” says Ford.

“Let’s bring it down to Sarnia. Let’s get the pipeline over to the Irving refinery in New Brunswick. That would relieve it,” says Ford.

Last summer, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario signed agreements to study the potential of a pipeline to flow oil and gas to a new port at James Bay and southern Ontario.

A feasibility study was started last fall.

To be completed later this year, the study is expected to provide potential routes and costs.