{"id":404115,"date":"2024-01-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404115"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Gas-prices-up-10-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Gas-prices-up-10-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices up 10 cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI saw its first fuel price increase of the year, with Mobil Oil Marianas leading the way by raising its prices late Wednesday afternoon by 10 cents.<\/p>\n<p>Mobil Oil Marianas implemented the 10-cent increase at around 4:15pm Wednesday. Shell Marianas is expected to follow the rise in gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>With the increase, Mobil now charges $5.36 per gallon for its Extra fuel, up from $5.26. Mobil also increased its Supreme fuel from $5.71 per gallon to $5.81 while diesel is now $5.73 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after months of gradual decreases in fuel prices, the last of which was back in December 2023, when gas prices went down from $5.36 per gallon to $5.26.<\/p>\n<p>Since the end of September 2023, fuel prices have been seeing a steady, continuous drop.<\/p>\n<p>The downtrend came after a string of increases.<\/p>\n<p>Since this is the first increase of the year, it is still too early to determine the trend in fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>According to a local gas attendant, it\u2019s normal to see a string of increases in the beginning of the year as people return from the holiday season and more cars return to the road.<\/p>\n<p>A 30-year-old motorist said she just hopes gas prices don\u2019t get ridiculously high this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everyone expected gas prices to increase sometime. I just hope prices don\u2019t get too high as people are still struggling,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/8549d7b7db57c4d763bc2e94ef5e6de4.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>At around 4:15pm last Wednesday, Mobil Oil Marianas implemented a 10-cent increase in its fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>-KIMBERLY B. ESMORES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI saw its first fuel price increase of the year, with Mobil Oil Marianas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404115","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}