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Gasoline, Taxi & Buses Prices Go Up In
December; Electricity and Water in January
December will be a month of increases in the
gasoline, taxi and buses. According to
Carolina Mora of the Autoridad Reguladora de
los Servicios Públicos (Aresep) the
increases will be significant.
The Aresep has approved the last increase in
gasoline prices that will see a litre of
super gasoline jump ¢24 colones, regular or
plus ¢26 and diesel ¢23. The increase will
see gasoline prices go from the current ¢564
to ¢588 for super, from ¢547 to ¢573 for
regular and from ¢488 to ¢511 for diesel.
Taxi fares could go up 35% following an
application by the Federación Nacional de
Cooperativas de Taxi (Fenacotaxi) to offset
increases in operating costs.
If approved the cost of the first kilometre
would increase by as much as ¢160 colones
and ¢15 for each additional kilometre. With
that increase the first kilometre would go
from the current ¢455 to ¢615 and additional
kilometres from ¢415 to ¢430.
The Aresep is also studying a request by bus
operators for an increase of 3.5%.
Now, if that is bad enough, more increases
are on their way after Christmas, when
electricity will be more expensive as the
Instituto Costarricense de Electrididad
(ICE) applies the approved rate increase on
January 1, 2010.
That increase will see the cost of
electrical service jump from ¢17.150 monthly
for the conumption of 250 KWh for ICE direct
customers. Customers of the CNFL (an ICE
agency) will pay ¢15.200, JASEC customers
¢13.650 and customers of ESPH ¢12.750,
Coopeguanacaste ¢15.400, Coopelesca ¢12.70,
Coopesanto ¢17.350 and Coopealfaro ¢16.900.
In January water will be more expensive as
well when rates jump 23.8%.
The rate has been approved by the Aresep.
However, an appeal to the Sala Cuarta by
residents of Turrujal de Acosta, saying that
they could not attend the public hearings
held by the water utility due to their
distance from the location of the public
hearings site. The court ordered the AyA to
hold a public hearing in Turrujal de Acosta,
which will take place between December 15
and 17. |
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