Fuel prices have increased for the first pricing window in September.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”v6JEaU7HYg3Bhlq6tLQDYJuH8lTGCiaU”]Checks by Citi Business News<\/strong> in the capital show that some major Oil Marketing Companies [OMCs], have increased their prices for the period.<\/p>\n While a litre of petrol has increased between 4 and 6 percent, a litre of diesel has increased between 6 and 8 percent.<\/p>\n For instance at Goil, a litre of petrol has increased from 3 cedis 49 pesewas per litre to 3 cedis 63 pesewas per litre.<\/p>\n A litre of diesel has equally increased from 3 cedis 39 pesewas to 3 cedis 62 pesewas.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, at Total, a litre of petrol has increased from 3 cedis 48 pesewas in the last pricing window in August, to 3 cedis 68 pesewas.<\/p>\n In addition the price of a litre of diesel has gone up from 3 cedis 38 pesewas to 3 cedis 65 pesewas.<\/p>\n At Shell, a litre of petrol and diesel are now selling at 3 cedis 67 pesewas and 3 cedis 64 pesewas respectively.<\/p>\n The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers however lamented the inability of the OMCs to maintain prices though\u00a0global prices were increasing steadily.<\/p>\n The Chamber argued that the rate of decrease in previous pricing windows, may not have prompted an increase.<\/p>\n \u201cAt a time when prices could have gone down by as much as 12 percent following indexes on the world market price and the stability over the period, we were recording a reduction of about 6 percent over the same period,\u201d the Executive Secretary of the Chamber, Duncan Amoah observed.<\/p>\n Duncan Amoah further argued that the decision by the OMCs to increase their prices this time round, is dissatisfactory.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately around a time that world market prices have inched up to about 46 or 47 dollars per barrel, prices on the local market have also gone up, diesel has gone up between 6 and 8 percent while petrol has gone up between 4 and 6 percent,\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fuel prices have increased for the first pricing window in September. [contextly_sidebar id=”v6JEaU7HYg3Bhlq6tLQDYJuH8lTGCiaU”]Checks by Citi Business News in the capital show that some major Oil Marketing Companies [OMCs], have increased their prices for the period. While a litre of petrol has increased between 4 and 6 percent, a litre of diesel has increased between 6 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,170,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n