Resonance: rising prices for gasoline

“Soon gasoline will cost so much that I will begin to strangle them before a date with women.”

In May 2018, gas prices rose sharply in Russia. According to Rosstat, in a month it went up by 5.6% compared to April and 7.2% since the beginning of the year compared to 2017. In response, the government reduced excise taxes on gasoline, but the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina admitted that these measures would stop prices at best and not lead to a decrease.

The rise in price of gasoline has become a problem for many residents of Russia. According to VTsIOM, 83% of respondents experience financial difficulties due to new prices. However, most respondents are sure that growth will continue.

In recent days, gasoline has become one of the main topics for discussion in social networks. Users cursed at new prices and predicted that "it will be worse."

The bloggers wondered why gasoline went up so much. On June 2, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak explained the increase in prices with a high cost of oil. “Oil jackets raised oil prices, oil refineries - gas prices, and we received the situation that we have on the wholesale market,” he said. But in social networks they noticed that at low oil prices, gasoline also rushed.

Putin’s rise in the rise in price of gasoline was also accused of Putin's “Oiligar Friends”.

Other users accused of the prices of Russians who "cannot leave the car for a week in the parking lot."

The situation with gasoline in Russia has become a popular topic for jokes: bloggers noticed that with new prices gasoline can be used as an expensive cologne and offered to wait out a bicycle crisis.

Based on high prices for gasoline, pictures and memes began to make.

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