If your tank is getting low, you may want to hold off filling up

If your tank is getting low, you may want to hold off filling up.

The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board will be invoking the interrupter clause to change the price of gas at midnight.

"This change is necessary due to significant shifts in the market prices of gasoline and diesel oil," the board said in a news release.

It doesn't say how much the price will change or by how much, but George Murphy of Consumers for Fair Gas Prices is expecting both regular self-serve and diesel to drop at least 5 cents a litre.

He believes several factors are contributing in the decrease, including a tariff dispute between U.S. and China, lower than expected refinery capacity and a decrease in demand.

"Consumers, knowing that prices did skyrocket the way they did over the last couple of months, had a good reason to be upset and they took it out on that," he explained in a phone interview with HalifaxToday.ca. "They actually conserved."

He said it's not just Nova Scotia seeing lower prices at the pumps.

"In areas where there's competition, those prices probably are already down."

The current regulated minimum price for regular self-serve is 119.3, and 117.8 for diesel.