Nova Scotia motorists have been hit with the biggest increase this year as gas stations adjust their prices up by 5.9 cents per litre overnight.

It’s the second consecutive increase in the province after two months of steady declines.

Consumers for Fair Gas Prices says last week’s increase of 3.7 cents per litre was more than expected, so this week’s increase should have been more modest.

“You guys have been getting a literal smack in the teeth,” George Murphy told the Rick Howe Show Wednesday. “Why nobody is there competing? There’s obvious a margin there where they could be moving prices, but they’re not.”

News 95.7 was predicting an increase of two cents per litre.

In metro the price of gas is selling for $1.277 after the Utility and Review Board reset the price at midnight.

Murphy said he predicts the price will not get higher than $1.30 per litre this summer.

“I think there is going to be a little bit of stability while everyone is on vacation,” he said.

This comes as fuel prices are going up in PEI as part of an unscheduled adjustment. Despite falling oil prices on global markets, gas prices on the Island are increasing by six cents today.

Filling up will now cost between one dollar and 19 cents and one dollar and 20 cents per litre for regular.

The prices for furnace oil and diesel have also gone up.

In New Brunswick, prices shot up by almost a nickel to a new maximum of $1.254

In the unregulated market of Toronto, prices were expected to remain steady at $1.248