{"id":168915,"date":"2026-10-09T17:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/government-keeps-prices-of-essential-fuels-frozen-in-dr\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:49:13","slug":"government-keeps-prices-of-essential-fuels-frozen-in-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/government-keeps-prices-of-essential-fuels-frozen-in-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Government keeps prices of essential fuels frozen in DR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican government allocates RD$1,525.4 million to subsidize fuels and mitigate international price hikes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With the goal of protecting the pockets of Dominicans against the volatility of global markets, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs (MICM) announced a state investment of RD$1,525.4 million to keep the prices of the most consumed fuels frozen during the week of October 10 to 16, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measure responds to a complex international situation where, despite fluctuations in the price of a barrel of crude oil, the costs of refined products\u2014especially premium diesel\u2014have experienced significant increases due to a drop in production at the main refineries that supply the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The financial challenge for the State is considerable. Although RD$10 billion was initially budgeted for subsidies this year, the global crisis has raised this figure to more than RD$38 billion, with projections that could reach RD$50 billion if the current trend persists.<\/p>\n<cite>Alofoke Deportes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stability in key products<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To alleviate the economic impact on households, transportation, and the commercial sector, the Government has decided to keep the prices of regular gasoline, regular diesel, natural gas, and, very especially, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) unchanged, which has now gone two years without any increases in its retail price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current prices (October 10 to 16, 2026)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Premium Gasoline:<\/strong> RD$358.10 per gallon (Up RD$5.00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regular Gasoline:<\/strong> RD$317.50 per gallon (Price remains unchanged)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regular Diesel:<\/strong> RD$270.80 per gallon (Price remains unchanged)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Optimum Diesel:<\/strong> RD$318.10 per gallon (Up RD$12.00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Avtur:<\/strong> RD$344.59 per gallon (Up RD$10.94)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kerosene:<\/strong> RD$387.20 per gallon (Up RD$7.10)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fuel Oil #6:<\/strong> RD$183.02 per gallon (Up RD$2.26)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fuel Oil 1%S:<\/strong> RD$219.67 per gallon (Up RD$6.92)<\/li>\n<li><strong>LPG:<\/strong> RD$135.20 per gallon (Price remains unchanged)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natural Gas:<\/strong> RD$43.97 per m3 (Price remains unchanged)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For the calculation of these values, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs took as a reference a weekly average exchange rate of RD$60.75, in accordance with the data provided by the Central Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican government allocates RD$1,525.4 million to subsidize fuels and mitigate international price hikes With the goal of protecting the pockets of Dominicans against the volatility of global markets, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs (MICM) announced a state investment of RD$1,525.4 million to keep the prices of the most consumed fuels frozen during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[1271,13203,4270,13472],"class_list":{"0":"post-168915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-fuels","10":"tag-prices","11":"tag-subsidies"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}