The average price of gasoline in Brazil may return to the level of June 2021 this week. The reason is the new reduction applied by Petrobras in the sale of fuel to distributors of R$ 0.15 per liter.
The variation at gas stations must be R$ 0.11 per liter, from the proportional account considering the mixture with ethanol.
The calculation is made by Petrobras itself.
In the survey carried out by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) released last Friday (29), the average value of a liter of fuel was R$ 5.74.
The survey is carried out by a company hired by the ANP, which photographs the price plates and produces reports. More than 5,500 stations are analyzed.
According to the ANP methodology, “the frequency of collection is weekly and, as a general rule, spot prices are collected in the first three working days of each week with electronic submission of the results”.
This means that the latest survey, released on Friday, was not yet able to detect price changes after the discount that was announced the day before.
If it is, at least partially, applied by gas stations, the discount can make the price level of common gasoline go back to June of last year.
Today the average value is R$ 5.74. With the discount, therefore, it could drop to R$5.63.
In June 2021, the monthly average of a liter of regular gasoline was R$5.68.
The drop to a level of 13 months is the result of a combination of factors: tax exemptions and reductions from Petrobras under the management of the new president, Caio Mario Paes de Andrade.
In less than a month, Andrade participated in the decision to reduce the price of gasoline twice: first by 4.93% and then by 3.88%.
The current price of gasoline (R$ 5.74) is already R$ 1.55 lower than the highest value recorded so far, in the second week of May this year, when the liter hit R$ 7.29.
Even so, the value is much higher than the level of June 2020, for example, when a liter of regular gasoline cost R$ 3.96.
One of the factors that contributed to the rise in prices in recent months was the War in Ukraine, which put pressure on the price of a barrel of oil on the international market.
Source: CNN Brasil
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