Without five rubles liter

Rosstat and the Audience "Novy" dispersed in assessing the cost of gasoline

An increased fee for gasoline export from Russia was saved until July 1. Such a decision was signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the end of May. Recall that many Russian regions at the end of April encountered a “gasoline crisis”: prices ...

An increased fee for gasoline export from Russia was saved until July 1.

Such a decision was signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the end of May.

Recall that many Russian regions at the end of April encountered a “gasoline crisis”: oil manufacturers increased by 6.8%, a shortage of fuel arose, which caused exciting demand. The Ministry of Energy believes that the current situation is associated with an increase in the export of oil products by 67% and with the retention of fuel with large companies. The Ministry of Energy also started talking about the need to nationalize a large oil refinery in the interests of independent manufacturers.

The reasons for the current situation were also called the new technical regulation, due to which gasoline with a high sulfur content cannot be sold in Russia, and repair work at a number of Russian large oil refineries. But the most important can be considered a sharp increase from the beginning of the year of excise taxes on fuel. It has become more profitable for oil companies to sell oil products not in Russia, where high taxes and low prices, but abroad.

Consumer prices for automobile gasoline on average in Russia for the period from May 16 to 22, 2011 increased by 0.7% compared to the previous week and continue to gain momentum. AI-92 gasoline cost 26.12 rubles. (went up by 0.36 rubles), AI-80-24.14 rubles. (growth by 0.35 rubles).

And the average consumer price of AI-92 gasoline, according to the Federal State Statistics Service, is 23.74 rubles.

We decided to check this figure, contacting visitors to the New website. The amount received when calculating data, which sent more than 500 of our readers, is very different from provided by Rosstat. For a liter of AI-92, Russian motorists will have to pay 28.8 rubles an average. per liter.

The most expensive movement by car costs the residents of the Arkhangelsk region, where at the AI-92 private refueling there are 33 rubles, as Alexey Novitsky told us. There is less gasoline in Buryatia for a ruble, but the most “cheap liter” was found in the Kemerovo region - only 21 rubles. 50 kopecks. The average price in Moscow amounted to 25.80 rubles.

Visitors to the Novaya site also provided interesting information about gas prices outside the Russian Federation.

In Ukraine, for one liter, on average, 37.36 rubles will have to be paid, in Georgia-35.6, in the UK-61.15, in Lithuania-56, in Scotland-61, in Bulgaria-40, in Canada and Australia-37.05, in Germany-64, in Switzerland-60, in Thailand in Bangkok-30, in Rio de Ganero-in Rio de Ganero-in Rio de Ganero- 49 rub. US residents have to pay $ 4.03 per gallon of fuel, that is, about 31 rubles. per liter.

But to whom it is really time to transfer to an alternative mode of transport is the inhabitants of Israel, where a liter of AI-92 costs 70 rubles. 80 kopecks.

Our readers also told the “new” that for a liter of 95th gasoline, residents of the Netherlands in the Hague pay 67.96 rubles, and the Poles give for this type of fuel 52 rubles.

True, while the reader’s data was processed, gasoline has already risen in some regions.

Comment

Anastasia Sosnova , Analyst of Investkafa agency:

- Unfortunately, the government has methods of influence only on wholesale prices. In addition to “from above”, the state makes attempts to stimulate the exchange trade in oil products, which could some extent reduce prices, but so far these attempts are not too successful.

As for retail prices for gasoline, they usually do not decrease much after wholesale or do not decrease at all. The fact is that in addition to oil companies, gas stations have other owners who, in particular, work with oil companies in franchise schemes. That is why the government has no leverage on retail sellers - there are too many of them.

If we talk about the incentives for investment in oil refining for oil companies, the government is constantly developing such incentives - it introduces Euro standards, then it is going to increase export duties on dark oil products that will export them, and then production is unprofitable. But the issue of modernizing its refineries by oil companies is moving very, very slowly.

Calculator

“New” decided to compare the prices for gasoline for 2003, 2007 and 2010, provided by Rosstat, with a living wage and calculate how many Lithers AI-92 motorists could buy for this money earlier, and how much now.