{"id":5100,"date":"2026-02-17T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7541523"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:52:43","slug":"gas-prices-in-kelowna-vernon-plummet-while-the-rest-of-b-c-isnt-so-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/5100\/gas-prices-in-kelowna-vernon-plummet-while-the-rest-of-b-c-isnt-so-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices in Kelowna, Vernon plummet while the rest of B.C. isn&#8217;t so lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the only things about the pandemic that wasn\u2019t awful was the price of gas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, gas prices in Kelowna, Vernon and other parts of the province have hit lows we haven\u2019t seen in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kelowna\u2019s cheapest litre of gas is a Super Save Gas for $1.07.4 a litre, and in Vernon it\u2019s also a Super Save Gas station at $1.07.9 a litre, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GasBuddy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kelowna has the cheapest gas in BC with five out of the 10 cheapest gas prices in the province, Feb. 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s gas prices feel pretty good since in 2022 Kelowna had a peak gas price of $2.17 a litre, but it\u2019s not quite as low as it was in 2020 at $0.89 a litre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gas prices have been dropping since the BC Consumer Carbon Tax was lifted on April 1, 2025, but prices in parts of B.C. plummeted recently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grand Forks and Salmon Arm have comparable prices to Kelowna and Vernon at around $1.07 to $1.09 a litre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drivers in Penticton and Kamloops haven\u2019t had the same luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cheapest gas in Penticton was at Gen7 today at $1.31.9 and in Kamloops was at Costco for $1.29.9. The cheapest gas in Vancouver was $1.47.9 at Canco and in Victoria it was at Costo for $1.54.9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The average gas price in the province is $1.50.1 per litre, the most expensive in the country and the province with the cheapest gas is Alberta with an average $1.16.4 per litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s gas prices feel pretty good since in 2022 Kelowna had a peak gas price of $2.17 a litre, but it\u2019s not quite as low as it was in 2020 at $0.89 a litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":5101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"guid":"","_duplicate_post":false,"rank_math_canonical_url":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1285,492,493],"tags":[],"region":[206,207,208,209],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"post_modified":"2026-02-17T16:52:43","post_modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:52:43","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/inwheels-gas_97ef2e.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}