{"id":391309,"date":"2023-05-10T06:06:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=391309"},"modified":"2023-05-10T06:06:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:06:55","slug":"may-brings-back-to-back-rollback-in-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/may-brings-back-to-back-rollback-in-fuel-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"May brings back-to-back rollback in fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gas-price-pix-W.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-391321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gas-price-pix-W-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CNMI saw yet another rollback in fuel prices late yesterday afternoon, the second reduction in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>At around 4pm yesterday afternoon, Mobil Oil Marianas led the way with a 10-cent price drop, less than a week since the last rollback. Shell Marianas expected to follow suit today.<\/p>\n<p>With these changes, Mobil\u2019s Extra fuel dropped from $5.21 per gallon to $5.11 per gallon. Mobil\u2019s Supreme fuel also dropped from $5.66 per gallon to $5.56 while diesel remains at $5.43 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to yesterday\u2019s rollback, local oil companies dropped their fuel prices last Wednesday from $5.31 per gallon of regular fuel to $5.21.<\/p>\n<p>Before the first rollback in May, last April 24, local oil companies also implemented a 10-cent decrease in fuel from $5.41 per gallon of regular fuel to $5.31.<\/p>\n<p>Local motorist shared their enthusiasm about the unexpected rollback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have high hopes. I\u2019m really hoping to see gas drop to $4 again. With the recent trend, maybe it might,\u201d said a 22-year-old motorist.<\/p>\n<p>A 29-year-old male said he was happily surprised to pull up to the gas station yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t planning to gas up, but when I saw gas was like $5.11, I had to pull up. I was happily surprised,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI saw yet another rollback in fuel prices late yesterday afternoon, the second reduction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":391322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391309","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\/391309","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=391309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}