Gasoline, diesel prices dip despite climbing oil costsBy Chen Cheng-hui / Staff reporterGasoline and diesel prices are to drop by NT$0.1 per liter this week, despite climbing international crude oil prices, CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油) and Formosa Petrochemical Corp (台塑石化) said yesterday. Affected by factors such as Germany’s call for an EU embargo on Russian oil and the arrival of the peak holiday driving period in the northern hemisphere, international crude oil prices last week increased from the previous week, CPC said. Another factor weighing on the global oil market was a continued decrease in US crude oil and gasoline inventories last week, Formosa said in a separate statement. Based on CPC’s floating oil price formula, the cost of crude oil last week rose 0.8 percent from a week earlier, and the refiner said that it should have raised gasoline prices this week by NT$5.3 per liter and diesel prices by NT$6.8 per liter. Formosa Petrochemical said that its prices for 92, 95 and 98-octane unleaded gasoline are to drop to NT$30.1, NT$31.6 and NT$33.6 per liter respectively, while the price of premium diesel is to drop to NT$27.7 per liter.

Source: Taipei Times May 29, 2022 20:34 UTC