The Dominican Government reported this Friday that it maintains the fuel prices unchanged, for which they have allocated an extraordinary subsidy of 660 million pesos.
This was reported by the Vice Minister of Internal Trade, Ramón Pérez Fermín.
Pérez Fermín explained that the international price of WTI averaged 100.49, for a new weekly decrease of 0.3% in relation to the average of the previous week, which amounted to 100.75, totaling an accumulated increase so far this year 2022 of 33.5%.
With this extraordinary subsidy, the government once again assumes 100% of the increases, avoiding increases in the prices of Premium Gasoline for 29.52 pesos, Regular Gasoline for 38.07, Regular Gasoil for 72.31 and Optimo Gasoil for 77.59 pesos per gallon.
For the week from July 23 to 29, 2022, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MiPymes provides that fuels be marketed at the following prices:
- Premium gasoline will be sold at RD$293.60 per gallon, maintaining its price.
- Regular Gasoline RD$274.50 per gallon maintains its price.
- Regular Diesel RD$221.60 per gallon maintains its price.
- Optimum Diesel RD$241.10 per gallon maintains its price.
- Avtur RD$298.91 per gallon maintains its price.
- Kerosene RD$338.10 per gallon maintains its price.
- Fuel Oil #6 RD$192.11 per gallon maintains its price.
- Fuel Oil 1%S RD$211.77 per gallon maintains its price.
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) RD$147.60 per gallon maintains its price.
- Natural Gas RD$28.97 per m3 maintains its price.
The average weekly exchange rate is RD$54.61 from the daily publications of the Central Bank.
