This was the seventh increase in a row since mid-April of the popular gasoline, which accounts for 70 percent of total fuel consumption in the country.

A staff receives cash from a customer at a gasoline station in Hanoi in March 2022.

RON 92 biofuel also saw its price rising by 0.61 percent to VND32,370 per liter, having increased by 43.5 percent this year.

Diesel increased by 3.4 percent Tuesday.

Vietnam’s fuel stabilization fund, set up to contain price surges, is currently negative.

The government has cut the environmental tax on fuel by half to VND2,000 from April for the rest of the year, and is considering cutting it by another VND1,000.

Gasoline prices surge 10 pct

Vietnam gasoline prices skyrocketed by 10 percent to another new record Friday, after authorities adjusted them upward for the seventh time in three months.

Gas price fluctuations over the last 13 years

Gas prices in Vietnam have more than doubled since 2009 and exceeded their previous peak of 2014 as global rates increase over supply shortages.

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Source: VnExpress