Santo Domingo.– The Government announced that it maintains the extraordinary subsidy for fuelswith an investment of more than 1,631 million pesos to avoid dramatic increases in the local market, as reported by the Deputy Minister of Internal Trade, Ramón Pérez Fermín.
“The government of President Luis Abinader once again makes an extraordinary sacrifice to prevent the increases from impacting Dominicans, at a cost of 1,631 million pesos,” said Perez.
He added that: «With this, we stop the increases in LPG of more than 5 pesos per gallon; of premium gasoline for more than 80 pesos per gallon; of the regular for almost 90 pesos; of regular diesel of more than 125 pesos per gallon; and optimal diesel of almost 125 pesos per gallon”.
He explained that the international price of WTI averaged 111.87 dollars, for a significant decrease of 6.4% in relation to the average of the previous week, which amounted to US$119.47. He explained that the accumulated increase continues to rise in the year and is around 44%.
For the week of June 25 through July 1, 2022, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MiPymes provides that fuels be marketed at the following prices:
Premium Gasoline | RD$293.60 per gallon | keeps its price |
Regular Gasoline | RD$274.50 per gallon | keeps its price |
Regular Diesel | RD$221.60 per gallon | keeps its price |
Optimum Diesel | RD$241.10 per gallon | keeps its price |
Avtur | RD$298.91 per gallon | keeps its price |
kerosene | RD$338.10 per gallon | keeps its price |
Fuel Oil #6 | RD$192.11 per gallon | keeps its price |
Fuel Oil 1%S | RD$211.77 per gallon | keeps its price |
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) | RD$147.60 per gallon | keeps its price |
Natural gas | RD$28.97 per m3 | keeps its price |