{"id":380269,"date":"2022-11-24T06:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=380269"},"modified":"2022-11-24T06:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:04:53","slug":"gas-prices-drop-10-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gas-prices-drop-10-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices drop 10 cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_380270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-380270\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gas-pix-PW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-380270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gas-pix-PW-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-380270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mobil Oil Marianas surprised the Saipan community with an unexpected drop in fuel prices earlier yesterday afternoon. (KIMBERLY B. ESMORES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oil companies in the CNMI dropped their prices yesterday by 10 cents in the first oil price adjustment this month<\/p>\n<p>Mobil Oil Marianas surprised the Saipan community with an unexpected drop in fuel prices earlier yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time yesterday, Shell Marianas had yet to also lower its prices but the two oil companies typically mirror each other\u2019s price movements and Shell is expected to follow suit today.<\/p>\n<p>With the rollback, Mobil now charges $5.06 per gallon of its Extra fuel from $5.16. Mobil\u2019s\u2019 Supreme fuel also went down from $5.61 per gallon to $5.51 while diesel dropped by 25 cents from $6.53 per gallon to $6.28.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old high school student who came to gas up, said he was surprised to see that gas had dropped. \u201cI really wasn\u2019t expecting to pull up right in time for a gas rollback. I was pleasantly surprised,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another motorist, a 38-year-old woman, said that price rollbacks are always a welcome surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess with the community in election season, a rollback is at the back of everyone\u2019s mind. But it\u2019s always a good surprise. Who wouldn\u2019t welcome a decrease in fuel prices, no matter how small or big it is?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A gas attendant said he is always happy when he finds out that gas prices are being rolled back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know when the main office will roll back or increase our gas prices here on Saipan. But, whenever I come into work and I find out prices have gone down, it\u2019s always a better feeling than when gas [prices] go up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For months, the CNMI saw a string of rollbacks but that streak was broken last Oct. 11 with a 10-cent increase when oil companies raised prices from $5.16 to $5.26 per gallon of regular fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil companies in the CNMI dropped their prices yesterday by 10 cents in the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":380271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380269","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=380269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}