The price of gasoline went up as the approved price hike of last week by the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (Aresep) went into effect.
The new cost of a litre of super gasoline is ¢628 (up from ¢593); regular ¢597 (up from ¢566); and diesel ¢514 (up from ¢494).
Luckily, a price drop is expected next month to reflect the dramatic fall of the dollar we're all witnessing.
The regulatory agency, the Authoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos, ordered a 6% cut in the price of gasoline and an 8% cut in diesel Wednesday.
Super gasoline goes from 627 colones (about $1.16) per litre to 593, a reduction of 34 colones or about 6.3 US cents.
Plus gasoline goes from 599 to 566 colones, a decrease of 33 colones.
Diesel drops from 534 to 493 colones, a reduction of 41 colon. Read more »
The Costa Rica's price regulating agency (Authoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos) is proposing a 37-colon (a 7-US cent) increase in the price of super gasoline. The price would go to 625 colones per litre (about $1.12). Plus gasoline would go up 24 colones (just over 4 cents) to 597 colones (about $1.07). Diesel would go up 22 colones to 533 (about 96 cents).
The proposed prices are subject to public hearings and will not be applied until the second week of February.
This is the fifth time this year that prices have been reduced by the price regulating agency.
Diesel will be 22 colones cheaper (484 per litre).
Super gasoline is going down 26 colones to 575 colones a litre.
Plus gasoline will go down 24 colons (558 per litre). Read more »
It’s time for the monthly price adjustment. The price regulating authority confirmed that all gas prices are going up this time.
Diesel will cost 62 colones more (11 cents more). Regular gasoline will cost 79 colones more (14 cents more), and super will go up 78 colones (14 cents).
The new prices will take effect after the resolution is published in the official newspaper (La Gaceta).
The price of gasoline dropped ¢39 last Friday.
As a result, some of the Shell gas stations have run out of gas!
Fabricio Pereira, general manager of Shell Costa Rica, explained that when price drops, the demand exceeds the capacity of storage reservoirs. Read more »
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April 21, 2010 6:17 pm
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