{"id":19439,"date":"2008-05-26T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/spike-in-fuel-prices\/"},"modified":"2008-05-26T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T01:43:56","slug":"spike-in-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/05\/26\/spike-in-fuel-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike in fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced increases ranging from RD$8.00 to RD$8.80 per gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel over the weekend. During the two weeks before the elections, the government put a hold on price increases for local fuels. At the same time, oil prices were spiraling towards the US$135 mark. The new prices now put a gallon of &#8216;premium&#8217; gasoline at RD$196.20 a gallon, while regular is at RD$184.10. RD$65 in government taxes is part of the RD$196.20 gallon price. Diesel climbed to RD$164.80, an increase of over RD$8 on the pre-election price. Propane for domestic use remains at RD$59.95, and non-subsidized LPG sells at RD$81.71 a gallon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced increases ranging from RD$8.00 to RD$8.80 per gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel over the weekend. During the two weeks before the elections, the government put a hold on price increases for local fuels. At the same time, oil prices were spiraling towards the US$135 mark. The new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/05\/26\/spike-in-fuel-prices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}