Subsidy remains on 91 octane

Regular gasoline prices register increase; the 95 will sell for $4.44 a gallon starting today. The subsidy for 95 octane gasoline expired on Friday, April 21.

91 octane gasoline and low sulfur diesel are maintained with this subsidy. That is, it sells for 3.25 a gallon. This measure will only be until next May 31.

Drivers who fill their vehicles with 95 have to buy it since this Saturday, at the market price: $1.17 a liter or $4.44 a gallon.

But the Secretary of Energy, Jorge Rivera Staff, recommended that those who use 95 octanes could use 91. “From the point of view of the manufacturers (of vehicles) there is no incidence in the change of the type of fuel in their engine,” the official explained this week. He added that “there is no type of limitation so that a vehicle that uses 95 cannot use 91 gasoline. That is why the scheme is maintained. It is an alternative that the Government presents to consumers”.

Since July 2022, after protests by social movements, fuel prices have been set at $3.25 a gallon and the State assumes the difference before the dispatching companies.