Saipan motorists got their first sticker shock for the year after Mobil Oil Mariana Islands increased its gas pump prices by 10 cents a gallon Monday night, bringing the price of regular unleaded gasoline to $4.959 a gallon. This, as the price of oil hovered over $94 a barrel amid cold weather in the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s affecting us big time,\u201d Pamela Combs told Saipan Tribune as she filled up her pickup truck yesterday at a Mobil service station in Garapan. \u201cGrocery is going up, gas price is going up but the minimum wage didn\u2019t go up. It\u2019s like we\u2019re working only to be able to buy gas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Combs, a resident of Achugao, said their family\u2019s heard-earned dollars could only go so far to survive each day and the added fuel cost only worsens their situation.<\/p>\n
Jesse Deleon Guerrero, of Dandan, said a gas price hike \u201cis a bad way to start a new year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garapan resident Felipe Serrano, meanwhile, said motorists like him can\u2019t do anything about gas price increases.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope this would be the highest and no more,\u201d he said yesterday while buying $5 gas for his pickup truck at a Mobil station.<\/p>\n
As of late yesterday afternoon, Shell Marianas\u2019 gas prices remained unchanged. However, Mobil and Shell have historically mirrored each other\u2019s price changes within a day or two.<\/p>\n
With Monday night\u2019s 10-percent gas price increase, the price of regular unleaded gasoline on Saipan is now $4.959 a gallon.<\/p>\n
Super unleaded gasoline is now $5.279 a gallon on Saipan.<\/p>\n
Diesel on Saipan now stands at $5.519 a gallon, a bit more than the CNMI\u2019s current minimum wage of $5.55 an hour.<\/p>\n
Gas prices on Rota and Tinian are much higher than those on Saipan. Overall gas prices in the CNMI are among, if not the highest, on American soil.<\/p>\n
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[B]MOBIL PRICES[\/B]
\nREGULAR: $4.959
\nPREMIUM: $5.279
\nDIESEL: $5.519
\n* Per gallon prices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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