If you forgot to fill up your gas tank last night, you're out of luck.
Gasoline prices were poised to rise Thursday after the Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito ruling bloc rammed a tax bill through the Diet on Wednesday to reinstate "provisional" extra rates for gasoline and other car-related taxes that expired last month.
The Democratic Party of Japan, which tried to abolish the extra rates by getting them to expire, boycotted the overriding vote in protest. Overrides have now been used twice since the coalition lost control of the Upper House to the opposition last July.
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