{"id":384205,"date":"2023-01-27T06:06:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=384205"},"modified":"2023-01-27T06:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:06:44","slug":"gas-prices-up-another-20-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gas-prices-up-another-20-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices up another 20 cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_384206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-384206\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Gas-pix-PW-11-225x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-384206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mobil Oil Marianas took the lead with a 20-cent gas price increase early yesterday morning. (Kimberly B. Esmores)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI was slapped with another gas price hike, just over a week since the last increase. This most recent increase is by far the largest increase seen in months at 20 cents. <\/p>\n<p>As has become usual, Mobil Oil Marianas took the lead with a 20-cent gas price increase early yesterday morning. Shell Marianas is expected to follow suit today. <\/p>\n<p>With this increase, Mobil now charges $5.31 for a gallon of Extra fuel when it previously charged $5.11. Mobil also increased its Supreme fuel from $5.56 a gallon to $5.76. Diesel also saw an increase from $6.03 a gallon to $6.18. <\/p>\n<p>The CNMI has not seen back-to-back increases since early 2022. Gas prices were on a steady decline since July and only started to pick back up in December 2022. <\/p>\n<p>The most recent increase was seen last Jan. 17 at 10 cents. <\/p>\n<p>According to a 29-year-old local motorist, an increase in fuel prices would prove to be a struggle as she lives in Dan Dan and works in Capital Hill. <\/p>\n<p>Another motorist, a 38-year-old mother of two, said an increase, even just 20 cents, will be hard on her as she has a child in elementary and in high school whom she personally drops at their schools daily. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a daughter in elementary and a son in high school. We live in San Vicente and I drop them tao school every day because they don\u2019t feel comfortable riding the bus. As a mother, I want to make my kids comfortable but if prices continue to rise, I don\u2019t know if I can keep on doing it as I am a sole breadwinner,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Another motorist is hoping the government can step in before gas prices get too heavy again.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s a long shot, but I\u2019m hoping our government can provide some kind of subsidy or cost-share to at least keep gas prices down because we are all struggling right now in this economy and the current inflation. It\u2019s hard times out there,\u201d said the 28-year-old. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI was slapped with another gas price hike, just over a week since the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":384207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384205","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\/384205","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=384205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}