{"id":24905,"date":"2010-01-05T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/big-hikes-in-fuel-prices\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T01:43:56","slug":"big-hikes-in-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/01\/05\/big-hikes-in-fuel-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Big hikes in fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The government hiked up fuel prices over the New Year holidays. On 31 December, Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced an RD$8.20 increase in the price of premium gasoline that now costs RD$160. Regular gasoline was up RD$7.90 and now sells for RD$150.70. Premium diesel was increased RD$7.60 to RD$136.70 and regular diesel goes for RD$131.70. Propane gas was up RD$4.50 to RD$80.80.<\/p>\n<p> Public transporters threatened to raise urban fares by RD$2 and RD$5 and inter-urban fares by RD$10 to compensate for what they described as the &#8220;abusive&#8221; raise. Transport union leader Juan Hubieres called for the increases to be revoked, saying that the hikes were a violation of Law 112-00 on Hydrocarbons, and a way for the government to increase its revenues at the expense of the poor, the middle class and the transporters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government hiked up fuel prices over the New Year holidays. On 31 December, Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced an RD$8.20 increase in the price of premium gasoline that now costs RD$160. Regular gasoline was up RD$7.90 and now sells for RD$150.70. Premium diesel was increased RD$7.60 to RD$136.70 and regular diesel goes for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/01\/05\/big-hikes-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":[229,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905"}],"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=24905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}