Although gasoline prices have risen over the last few months, the year-on-year rate of gasoline inflation is still set to fall over the next few months. Given that other energy and non-energy commodity prices have already declined substantially from a year ago, falling gasoline price inflation is expected to dampen total CPI inflation even more in the months to come, possibly to below 2% by mid-year.
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