Petrol and diesel show slight price increase after a month of constant reductions
Sunday, June 30, 2013 @ 8:00 PM
PETROL prices have gone up for the first time in over four weeks – just in time for the start of the summer.
Although the increase is only 0.07 per cent in the case of petrol and 0.05 per cent for diesel – less than a tenth of a cent per litre – they remain 5.7 per cent higher than a year ago for petrol and 3.7 per cent for diesel.
Diesel has in fact been coming down in price all year, with a continued slide seen since January, due to more competitive production thanks to the expansion of the oil refineries in Bilbao, in the Basque Country, and Cartagena (Murcia).
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