{"id":337283,"date":"2021-01-25T06:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T20:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=337283"},"modified":"2021-01-25T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T20:04:21","slug":"gas-breaches-4-mark-with-new-10-cent-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gas-breaches-4-mark-with-new-10-cent-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas breaches $4 mark with new 10-cent increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upward trend in gas prices continues, with fuel prices in the CNMI breaching the $4 mark over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Mobil Oil Marianas raised its prices first last Friday, increasing the price of its Extra Fuel by 10 cents a gallon. Shell Marianas followed suit on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices went up 10 cents from $3.98 for a gallon of Extra fuel to $4.08 per gallon. Mobil\u2019s Supreme fuel also increased by 10 cents from $4.43 per gallon to $4.53 per gallon.  <\/p>\n<p>The lowest price of fuel in the CNMI before the government shutdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic was $3.83. Gas is now 25 cents higher than pre-COVID days.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Mobil employee, they are not informed about fuel increases. They tend to follow Guam\u2019s prices and are only informed of an increase the night prior. <\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old motorist said she doesn\u2019t think the price is too bad given that she has seen gas prices reach higher than $4. <\/p>\n<p>Another motorist, a 54-year-old male, said he remembers when prices were just a few cents. He said, however, minimum wage has significantly increased since then so he understands.<\/p>\n<p>According to various media outlets, gas increases are happening as people return to work, with COVID-19 protocols gradually loosening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upward trend in gas prices continues, with fuel prices in the CNMI breaching the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":337285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337283","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=337283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}