No change in Japan gas prices before Oct.

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The per-gallon rate for midgrade unleaded gas at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, on Thursday was $4.06 when Navy spouse Douglas Hadorn stopped in at the base’s Autoport filling station.


No change in Japan gas prices before Oct.
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, August 16, 2008

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Gas prices for the U.S. military community overseas are falling in South Korea and Guam but not in mainland Japan or Okinawa.

Prices throughout the region, however, remain well above the Department of Energy’s stateside average of $3.809 per gallon.

While the price of unleaded gas will drop at all Army and Air Force Exchange Service stations on Guam and in South Korea on Saturday, the cost for midgrade unleaded in Japan will remain at $4.063, AAFES said Thursday.

And motorists in Japan can expect the cost to remain unchanged until at least October, said AAFES spokesman Master Sgt. Donovan Potter.

"We’re buying gas now at $4.19 per gallon in Japan," Potter said. "And we’re not going to get any relief until at least the first of October. We can’t sell for less than what we pay for it."


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