Start a new year with more increase in the price of gasoline. The Ministry of Mines and Energy reported this Saturday morning that the National Government will increase, as of Sunday, January 1, 2023, by approximately $400 pesos the value of a gallon of regular motor gasoline throughout the country and by approximately $57 pesos per gallon. value of the gallon of diesel.
“The increase in the price of regular gasoline aims to reduce the fiscal impact of the FEPC on the National Government due to the dynamics of international prices of refined products, which have increased due to international factors such as the price of oil and the level of global risk that affected the exchange rate in the country,” they said in a statement.
With this new increase, only in two of the 13 main cities in Colombia the increase fails to position the value of the gallon above $10,000.
In Bogota, whose reference price for sale to the public was $10,123 in December, it will be $10,523 starting tomorrow; in Cali it went from $10,158 to $10,559; Medellin from $10,063 to $10,460; and Villavicencio from $10,223 to $10,623. The capital of Meta has the most expensive gasoline in the country among the 13 main cities.
In Bucaramanga, the value of a gallon will go from $9,882 in December to $10,223, which meant an increase of $391.
