{"id":24977,"date":"2012-07-26T06:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T06:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=24977"},"modified":"2012-07-26T06:55:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T06:55:10","slug":"another-10-cent-increase-in-saipan-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/another-10-cent-increase-in-saipan-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Another 10-cent increase in Saipan gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Saipan motorists have to pay more again every time they buy a gallon of gasoline following Mobil Oil Mariana Islands&#8217; 10-cent a gallon price increase on Tuesday night, exactly a week since it raised its prices by 15 cents and barely months after a series of rollbacks.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cA 25-cent increase in gas in just one week is ridiculous yet when they try to drop the prices, it takes a long time,\u201d Rep. Stanley Torres (Ind-Saipan) said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Torres, chairman of the House Committee on Public Utilities, Transportation and Communications, has been asking the Office of the Attorney General to monitor Mobil and Shell Marianas&#8217; prices, which he describes as \u201ctoo high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest increases are very disappointing. They have been earning millions of dollars, and donating lots of money too and I am guessing those donations are for tax breaks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The pump price of regular unleaded gasoline on Saipan is now $4.759 a gallon, up 10 cents from $4.659 a gallon at Mobil service stations.<\/p>\n<p>Super unleaded gasoline now costs $5.079 a gallon, also up 10 cents from $4.979 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel, however, remained unchanged at $5.069 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>As of yesterday afternoon, Shell Marianas service stations had yet to change prices. Mobil and Shell historically mirror each other&#8217;s price changes.<\/p>\n<p>The CNMI, especially Rota, has the dubious distinction of having the highest gas prices on American soil. As of yesterday, average regular gas price in the U.S. was $3.506 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Oil was little changed near $88 a barrel Wednesday in Asia ahead of weekly U.S. crude inventory figures that give a reading on the state of near-term demand for fuel, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan&#8217;s gas prices started increasing again on July 17, after a series of gas price reductions totaling 60 to 65 cents since May 8.<\/p>\n<p>A government employee said while work hours will be increased to 72 hours starting next week from the current 64 hours, the eight-hour increase might only go to buy gas for their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan motorists have to pay more again every time they buy a gallon of gasoline&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[171,64],"class_list":["post-24977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-asia","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}