For the week of September 3 to 9, 2022, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs 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.
Read more: Industry and Commerce: All fuel prices, without variation
The closure of operations of WTI per barrel during this week in the markets ranged between US$89.55 as the minimum value, and US$97.01 as the highest value, averaging US$92.76, for which the Dominican government announced that for the first week of September the extraordinary subsidy and freeze the prices of all fuels.
The Vice Minister of Domestic Trade, Ramon Perez Fermin reported that more than 460 million pesos were allocated for this week alone, thus avoiding the increases that continue to be caused by the recovery in post-pandemic demand, exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with strong sanctions against Russia, one of the main producers of world oil.
“The government of the president Louis Abinader maintains its policy of not transferring increases to the population, assuming a debt of 460 million dollars, thereby avoiding increases ranging from 10 pesos per gallon to almost 80 pesos per gallon in the case of Optimum Gasoil”, Pérez pointed out. Fermin.
