{"id":363318,"date":"2022-03-02T06:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T20:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=363318"},"modified":"2022-03-02T06:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T20:03:47","slug":"cnmi-gas-prices-up-another-10-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cnmi-gas-prices-up-another-10-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMI gas prices up another 10 cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_363312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363312\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Fuel-prices-pix-PW-11.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-363312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just two weeks after the last price increase, Mobil Oil Marianas has hiked its prices again by another 10 cents.\u00a0(Kimberly B. Esmores)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI continues to see a steady increase in fuel prices with local oil companies raising prices by another 10 cents. <\/p>\n<p>At around 3pm yesterday, Mobil Oil Marianas took the lead by increasing its fuel prices by 10 cents across the board. <\/p>\n<p>Mobil\u2019s Extra fuel went up from $ 5.46 a gallon to $5.56. Mobil also hiked its Supreme fuel from $5.91 to $6.01 a gallon. The local oil company also increase its diesel prices to $5.93 per gallon. <\/p>\n<p>Shell Marianas has yet to increase its prices as of 6pm yesterday, but both oil companies usually mirror each other\u2019s price changes, so Shell is expected to impose the same increase today.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple motorists share their fears as the CNMI inches closer to the $6 mark in fuel prices. <\/p>\n<p>According one motorist, she fears that prices won\u2019t get better anytime soon. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the international conflict in Ukraine escalating, I fear we\u2019re far from seeing relief in terms of oil prices. What I\u2019m most worried about is how this steady increase is going to affect our electricity,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Another motorist echoed the woman\u2019s sentiment stating that fuel increases don\u2019t just affect transportation, but our way of life. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve already had to minimize my energy consumption because of the increase in the [Fuel Adjustment Charge] due to the continuous increase in gas prices and I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one. This doesn\u2019t just impact our daily transportation. This means inflation in the cost of power. With our economy not even back at 100% due to COVID, how will many of the local residents afford power if this trend continues?\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>In related news, the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. announced on Monday that it will be increasing its Fuel Adjustment Charge, effective yesterday, March 1, to $0.27122 per kilowatt-hour.<\/p>\n<p>The FAC is one of two components that make up the CUC electric kWh rate, which is used to purchase fuel. The second component is the CUC base rate, which is used to fund operations, projects, and debt service. This base rate has not been increased since April 17, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI continues to see a steady increase in fuel prices with local oil companies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":363313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-363318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-cnmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363318","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=363318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}