{"id":276059,"date":"2018-05-15T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=276059"},"modified":"2018-05-15T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:06:11","slug":"yet-another-gas-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/yet-another-gas-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another gas price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_276062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276062\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Mobil-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Mobil-pix-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-276062\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-276062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mobil gas stations have raised their gas prices by 20 cents and Shell gas stations are expected to follow shortly. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan has been hit with yet another gas price increase, just three months after the last price increase. <\/p>\n<p>According to Mobil\u2019s main office on Saipan, they were informed around 10am yesterday morning to increase their gas prices by 20 cents. <\/p>\n<p>Mobil\u2019s main office is not informed in advance as to any changes made to the gas prices. <\/p>\n<p>As of yesterday, the price increase boosted the price of Mobil\u2019s Extra fuel from $4.23 per gallon to $4.43 per gallon, while Mobil\u2019s Supreme fuel went up from $4.60 to $4.80 a litter. <\/p>\n<p>According to Saipan Tribune archives, gas prices were at $3.48 in early 2016 and continued to increase until it reached $3.93 in December 2016. A decrease of 10 cents was seen in June of 2017 before it increased by 10 cents again in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A 13-cent increase was implemented on Jan. 8, 2018, raising gas prices from $3.95 to $4.08 per gallon and was raised just one month later by 15 cents on Feb. 5 from $4.08 to $4.23 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Shell has yet to raise their gas prices but it is believed by Shell employees that they will follow suit shortly. <\/p>\n<p>Gas prices have been going up nationwide since President Trump pulled the United States out of a deal with Iran, one of the world\u2019s largest oil producers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan has been hit with yet another gas price increase, just three months after the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":276062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[652,15255,38,57],"class_list":["post-276059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-iran","tag-president-trump","tag-saipan-tribune","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276059","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}