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How much have fuel prices risen since the start of the Mideast conflict

A gas attendant fills up a vehicle with fuel in Manila on Tuesday. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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Arthur Fuentes

ABS-CBN News

<p>MANILA – Pump prices will have a big time rollback on Tuesday, but are still around twice as high since the first week of March, after the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran and sent world crude prices skyrocketing. </p><p>Based on data from the Department of Energy’s <a href="https://prod-cms.doe.gov.ph/documents/d/guest/ncr-price-monitoring-04072026-pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oil Monitor</a> website, diesel prices in the National Capital Region ranged from P48 to P65.39 per liter from Feb. 24 to March 2, or the last week before the outbreak of war in the Middle East. </p><p>Unleaded gasoline prices during the same period meanwhile, ranged from P49.00 to P63.49 per liter, while kerosene ranged from P77.40 to P98.89 per liter.</p><table style="width:100%"><tbody><tr><td colSpan="4" style="width:99.6047%"><div style="text-align:center">FUEL PRICE MOVEMENTS IN NCR SINCE US, ISRAEL WAR VS IRAN</div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:24.9013%"><div style="text-align:center">Fuel</div></td><td style="width:24.9011%"><div style="text-align:center">March 2 price</div></td><td style="width:25.0000%"><div style="text-align:center">April 7 price</div></td><td style="width:25.0000%"><div style="text-align:center">Estimate April 14</div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:24.9013%">Diesel</td><td style="width:24.9011%"><div style="text-align:center">48.00 - 65.39*</div></td><td style="width:25.0000%"><div style="text-align:center">120 - 160.20*</div></td><td style="width:25.0000%"><div style="text-align:center">99.11 - 137.20</div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:24.9013%">Gasoline</td><td style="width:24.9011%"><div style="text-align:center">49.00 - 63.49*</div></td><td style="width:25.0000%"><div style="text-align:center">85.90 - 108.20*</div></td><td style="width:25.0000%"><div style="text-align:center">81.47 - 101.70</div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:24.9013%">Kerosene</td><td style="width:24.9011%"><div style="text-align:center">77.40 - 98.89*</div></td><td style="width:25.0000%"><div style="text-align:center">154.00 - 177.19*</div></td><td style="width:25.0000%"><div style="text-align:center">146.39 - 165.69</div></td></tr><tr><td colSpan="4" style="width:99.6047%">*Figures culled from DOE Oil Monitor</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br/></div><p>As of the April 7 to 13 period, or the last updated matrix of pump prices on the DOE website, diesel prices in the NCR ranged from P120 to P160.20 per liter. </p><p>Gasoline prices meanwhile ranged from P85.90 to P108.20 per liter, and kerosene ranged from P154.89 to P177.19 per liter. </p><p>If the P20.89 (Petron) to P23.00 (Shell) per liter rollback for diesel implemented on April 14 is factored in, this means that diesel now costs between P99.11 and P137.20 per liter. </p><p>For gasoline, which had rollbacks of between P4.43 (Petron) to P6.50 (Shell) per liter, the price would now range between P81.47 and P101.70. </p><p>For kerosene, the price rollback was P8.50 (Petron) to P11.50 (Shell) per liter, which means that the new prices would range between P146.39 and P165.69. </p><p>The excise tax on kerosene was also reduced by P5.60 per liter, but there are no details yet about when this will be implemented at the pumps, as of this posting.</p>

<p>Pump prices will have a big time rollback on Tuesday, but are still around twice as high since the first week of March.</p>

Pump prices will have a big time rollback on Tuesday, but are still around twice as high since the first week of March.