{"id":28369,"date":"2011-01-17T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/fuel-highs\/"},"modified":"2011-01-17T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T01:43:56","slug":"fuel-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/01\/17\/fuel-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Ministry of Industry &#038; Commerce authorized increases ranging from RD$1.28 to RD$4 in fuel last Friday. The new prices per gallon are: premium gasoline RD$180.10, regular gasoline RD$170.30, premium diesel RD$159.60, regular diesel RD$154, avtur RD$127.27, kerosene RD$145.10, fuel oil RD$109.29, propane RD$92.52, natural gas RD$18.94\/cubic meter.<\/p>\n<p> Diario Libre reports that this is the third price hike in three weeks, for a total of premium gas RD$9.30, regular RD$9.80, premium diesel RD$7.70, regular diesel RD$10.10 and in propane RD$4.73.<\/p>\n<p> The prices are almost at the levels when a barrel of petroleum was at US$147 on the world markets (July 2008). The price per barrel of petroleum now is considerably lower, US$91.86, though.  For the week of 28 June to 4 July 2008 premium gasoline cost RD$207.90, regular RD$197.80, regular diesel RD$181.80 and premium diesel RD$185.13.<\/p>\n<p> The record price of propane was reached in 13-19 September 2008, when a gallon cost RD$73.92, or RD$95.68 without the subsidy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Industry &#038; Commerce authorized increases ranging from RD$1.28 to RD$4 in fuel last Friday. The new prices per gallon are: premium gasoline RD$180.10, regular gasoline RD$170.30, premium diesel RD$159.60, regular diesel RD$154, avtur RD$127.27, kerosene RD$145.10, fuel oil RD$109.29, propane RD$92.52, natural gas RD$18.94\/cubic meter. Diario Libre reports that this is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/01\/17\/fuel-highs\/\" 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":[230,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28369"}],"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=28369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}