Exceptional Fuel Pricing After Dollar Drop

The Minister of Energy and Water in the caretaker government, Walid Fayyad, announced that he "issued an exceptional pricing table for fuels today following the rapid decline in the exchange rate of the dollar since yesterday, which inevitably reflected a decrease in the prices of diesel and gas." The prices are now as follows: Diesel at 769,000 Lebanese pounds. (-10,000) Gas at 358,000 pounds. (-4,000).