Gasoline COR 95 on Thursday will cost at most 24.27 lei a liter, up 0.15 lei on today. A liter of diesel fuel will be sold for 25.71 lei, up 0.20 lei, IPN reports.

The retail price ceilings for the main oil products of standard type are set by the National Agency for Energy Regulation.

The increase in the prices of gasoline and diesel fuel follows a period of constant declines.

At the beginning of last September, a liter of gasoline COR 95 cost 20.23 lei, while a liter of diesel fuel –16.42 lei. A series of price rises occurred in the first half of this year, with a record high being witnessed in June, when gasoline COR 95 was sold for 33.90 lei a liter, while diesel fuel for 32.46 lei a liter.

The liquefied petroleum gas, for which the Agency does not set price ceilings, is now sold for about 16.70 lei a liter.