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Gas
Price Goes Up At Midnight;
First Bus Fares Hike Approved
Beginning at midnight tonight,
gasoline prices will jump ¢51
colones per litre for super and
regular and ¢18 colones for
diesel, which will begin a
series of price increases in
other areas, like buses and
taxis for example.
As the price of a litre of
gasoline goes from ¢475 colones
to ¢to ¢526, regular from ¢453
to ¢504 and diesel will jump
from ¢326 to ¢334, the first bus
company to ask the Autoridad
Reguladora de los Servicios
Públicos (Aresep), is Lumaca,
that provides service between
San José and Cartago.
Aracelly Pacheco, on her last
day of "regulador" gave the
green light to the increase that
will see fares from from he
current ¢240 colones to ¢300
colones.
The increase is coincidental
with the increase in the price
of gasoline.
With the change of government
comes a change of "regulador"
which will not be announced for
at least several weeks and
freezing any and all requests at
the Aresep until a new "regulador"
is announced and takes office.
As of yesterday, there are 24
requests for price increases
being shelved - for items like
electricity, water connection
and disconnection fees and bus
fares - until the new "regualdor"
takes office.
During the next several days the
Poder Ejecutivo (the executive
branch) will have to send to the
Legislative Assembly the name or
names of a new "regulador", who
will then choose who will head
the institution for the next
four years.
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