Prices of some petroleum products have gone up by 11 percent for the first pricing window in January.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”qys5GaXy6p89YO42RCbpjrV6cdfvSoY8″]Checks by Citi Business News<\/strong> indicate that the price of a litre of petrol has gone up between 8 and 11 percent while the same quantity for a litre of diesel has gone up between 9 and 11 percent.<\/p>\n A litre of petrol at some major Oil Marketing Companies \u00a0(OMCs) is now selling between 4 cedis and 4 cedis 15 pesewas.<\/p>\n Also, the price of a litre of diesel could be sold to you at 4 cedis and 4 cedis 15 pesewas.<\/p>\n At\u00a0Total filling stations, petrol has been increased by 31 pesewas, with a litre selling at 4 cedis 10 pesewas as against the 3 cedis 79 pesewas in December.<\/p>\n Also, the price of a litre of diesel has gone up\u00a0by 36 pesewas, currently selling at 4 cedis 15 pesewas from 3 cedis 79 pesewas.<\/p>\n Shells price per litre of petrol has shot up by 31 pesewas; from 3 cedis 78 pesewas to 4 cedis 10 pesewas.<\/p>\n Diesel has also increased by 36 pesewas as a litre is now selling at 4 cedis 15 pesewas as against the earlier 3 cedis 79 pesewas.<\/p>\n Goil has also recorded a price jump\u00a0as their products are now selling at petrol 4 cedis 8 pesewas and diesel also at 3 cedis 99 pesewas.<\/p>\n Meanwhile SO energy is selling both a litre of petrol and diesel at a new price of 4 cedis.<\/p>\n Other filling stations also equally\u00a0increased their prices as at the time Citi Business News<\/strong> visited the pumps.<\/p>\n The OMCs have however dismissed reports that the increases had been made ahead of the two week pricing window.<\/p>\n According to them,\u00a0the adjustments are within the pricing window frame.<\/p>\n Meanwhile the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers has expressed dissatisfaction at the development.<\/p>\n The Chamber\u2019s Executive Secretary, Duncan Amoah tells Citi Business News<\/strong> the persistent increases are worrying.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think Ghanaians are happy with the sort of increases that we have seen in recent times; before this window, we saw 4-6% increases in prices. Earlier than that there had been some 3-11% increases that was even contested but eventually reflected at the pumps. What we are not happy about is the persistence with which fuel prices are going up in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n He believes government can take up the mandate to ensure prices are reduced.<\/p>\n \u201cWe believe that the government and the incoming government would have to reconsider the taxes we have on petroleum products in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jessica Ayorkor Aryee\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prices of some petroleum products have gone up by 11 percent for the first pricing window in January. [contextly_sidebar id=”qys5GaXy6p89YO42RCbpjrV6cdfvSoY8″]Checks by Citi Business News indicate that the price of a litre of petrol has gone up between 8 and 11 percent while the same quantity for a litre of diesel has gone up between 9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":210160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-oil-and-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}