Gas prices fall, diesel climbs
The price of gasoline will fall between 3 and 5 cents on Friday April 28 in time for the long weekend incorporating May Day.
95-octane gasoline will drop five cents to $.766 a liter, and 91 octane will fall three cents to $.742 a liter, says Panama’s Energy Secretariat.
The price of diesel, however, will rise 6 cents to $ .629 a liter.
The new prices, which affect the capital and the Caribbean city of Colón, will take remain in place until May 12.
In the rest of the country, fuel prices are slightly higher because of transportation costs, say the Energy Secretariat, which updates fuel prices every 15 days.
