Even with petrobras reduction, gasoline in para does not reduce; Understand the cause | The economy

A. Petrobrass Announced, Monday (2), reduction R $ 0,17 Gasoline is sold to distributors at the price, which comes into effect from Tuesday (3). There is average price of gasoline R $ 2.85 per liter – The fall of 5,6%. Despite this reduction, Para’s consumer has not yet experienced the impact on the final price.

According to Syndicompeefs-PaIn the state, a company that represents the retail trade of oil, natural gas and biological fuels, which is caused by the dynamics of this delayed marketing chain, which works as follows:

Upon extraction, the oil is sent to the refineries, where it transforms into fuel. Then the product is sold to the refineries – petrobras and others – to the suppliers, which add biological fuels and then return to the gas stations. These are the final link in the chain, buying distributors’ fuel for the sale of re -ALE to customers.

Even with this structure, the union has reported that in a press release, several posts have not received the discounts announced by suppliers. It is worth noting that distributors are strictly affected by the price of the end user. Therefore, without transferring the reduction, posts cannot be provided with cheaper prices in bombs.

In this scenario, the fuel distribution market in Brazil is the high density of the union PA, according to the union PA, which dominates 70% of the sector, which depicts the Oligopoli regime.

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“Prices grow like rockets and come from parachute”

The company has used the famous expression to mention market behavior as an example: when the petrobras declares an increase, distributors go to the stations quickly. However, when there is a reduction, the transfer happens slowly.

The union argues that consumer inspection and defense agencies will cover the distributors’ descriptions about the delay in transferring reductions, and that posts will prevent posts from being unnecessarily responsible for maintaining high prices.

According to petrobras, with this new adjustment, gasoline will accumulate a reduction of 22 0.22 per liter from December 2022, which indicates a decrease in 7.3%.

*Under the supervision of Thalin Silva, Journalism Intern, Policy and Economy Center Coordinator Kaila Ferrera