The transport unions have announced a fare hike of between RD$3.00 or RD$4.00, depending on the route. Only the government-supported OMSA has said that they would keep bus fares at RD$5.00 and RD$10.00. The rising cost of diesel fuel was given as the reason for the price increases. All buses belonging to the CONATRA, CNTU and FENATRANO unions will apply the new rates. Union leaders Antonio Marte, Ramon Perez Figuereo and Juan Hubieres all gave the rising cost of diesel fuel as the only reason for the new fares. The spokesmen also said that if diesel continues to go up, so will the bus fares. They said that fares to cities outside Santo Domingo would go up between RD$5.00 and RD$10.00 depending on the distance to be traveled. In an interesting aside, the director of the Metropolitan Office of Bus Service (OMSA) Ignacio Ditren, revealed that public transport consumes 32 % of the nation’s fuel and electricity production consumes 38%. What is surprising is that Ditren said that of the fuel used in transportation, 53% was consumed by motorcycles, 32% by automobiles and 14% by heavy-goods vehicles.