{"id":5291,"date":"2003-11-03T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/gasoline-hits-all-time-high\/"},"modified":"2003-11-03T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-11-03T01:43:56","slug":"gasoline-hits-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/11\/03\/gasoline-hits-all-time-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline hits all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gasoline-price records were broken this week with increases as great as RD$5.00 per gallon of premium petrol. Current prices now stand at RD$70.15 for unleaded premium, RD$62.07 for regular unleaded and RD$44.80 for diesel. The prices signify an increase of over RD$20.00 for the year. Industry &#038; Commerce official Federico Quezada stated that a 10% increase in transport costs could also be forthcoming. When the transport unions threatened a strike two weeks ago in the face of a new price increase, the price of fuel was lowered by an insignificant amount and the pressure tactics evaporated. With these historic highs, however, writer Asun Egurza of  El Caribe asks &#8220;Now what?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gasoline-price records were broken this week with increases as great as RD$5.00 per gallon of premium petrol. Current prices now stand at RD$70.15 for unleaded premium, RD$62.07 for regular unleaded and RD$44.80 for diesel. The prices signify an increase of over RD$20.00 for the year. Industry &#038; Commerce official Federico Quezada stated that a 10% &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/11\/03\/gasoline-hits-all-time-high\/\" 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":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291"}],"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=5291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}