Canada’s fuel sales rise 1% to 89.7 million cubic metres

Total sales of refined petroleum products to end-users in Canada reached 89.7 million cubic metres in 2025, up 1.0 per cent from 2024, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.

Motor gasoline sales edged up 0.4 per cent to 43.7 million cubic metres, and diesel fuel oil rose 0.7 per cent to 29.4 million cubic metres, the agency said. Gasoline made up 48.8 per cent of all sales and diesel 32.7 per cent.

Aviation turbo fuel grew fastest among the main fuels. Sales totalled 9.2 million cubic metres, up 6.3 per cent from a year earlier. Statistics Canada said sales of light fuel oil, used for heating, increased 3.2 per cent to 1.4 million cubic metres.

Statistics Canada said sales of all fuels to the Canadian air transportation industry rose 5.9 per cent to 7.9 million cubic metres. The agency said the growth lines up with an increase in the number of passengers at Canadian airports.

Sales of all fuels to the road transportation industry edged up 0.3 per cent to 6.7 million cubic metres. Diesel sales to gasoline stations rose 4.1 per cent to 2.4 million cubic metres, while motor gasoline sold to gasoline stations rose 0.4 per cent to 15.8 million cubic metres.

Ontario accounted for 33.0 per cent of sales, Quebec for 27.4 per cent and British Columbia for 20.0 per cent.

Canada News Media added up the agency’s published figures. Gasoline, diesel and jet fuel together came to 82.3 million cubic metres, about 92 per cent of the total. Jet fuel’s 9.2 million cubic metres works out to about 10 per cent, and heating oil’s 1.4 million cubic metres to about 1.6 per cent. Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia together took about 80 per cent of national sales.

Statistics Canada said the estimates are approximated from reported refinery sales and import volumes. The figures cover 2025, before the recent run-up in oil prices that has pushed up costs at the pump and for fleets. Canada News Media has reported on what oil at US$116 means at the pump, on factory-gate diesel prices and on record diesel costs for Saskatchewan farms. Our earlier report on the UN’s warning on the 1.5 C climate target covers the emissions side of the same story.

The data come from Statistics Canada’s End use of refined petroleum products, 2025, released Oct. 27, 2026.

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