Prices are up, led by gasoline and electricity

The increase for the first half of 2012 is lower than the 3.7 percent inflation rate for all of 2011

By Alan Yonan Jr.

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Aug 16, 2012

~~<p>Rising electricity and gasoline costs were the main drivers of an increase in consumer prices in Honolulu during the first half of this year.</p>
<p>Honolulu's Consumer Price Index rose 2.8 percent during the January-through-June period compared with the same six months a year earlier, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Honolulu's increase was larger than the 2.5 percent average increase in consumer prices among 10 cities surveyed by the bureau. However it represented a slowing from Honolulu's 3.7 percent inflation for all of 2011.</p>
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Rising electricity and gasoline costs were the main drivers of an increase in consumer prices in Honolulu during the first half of this year.

Honolulu's Consumer Price Index rose 2.8 percent during the January-through-June period compared with the same six months a year earlier, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Honolulu's increase was larger than the 2.5 percent average increase in consumer prices among 10 cities surveyed by the bureau. However it represented a slowing from Honolulu's 3.7 percent inflation for all of 2011. Login for more...