After nine consecutive weeks of decline, the average price of regular gasoline rose again for Brazilian consumers between January 9 and 14. This is what the most recent bulletin from the National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) points out, released on Friday (14). Currently, the average price of fuel is R$ 6,608. In the first week of January, the cost registered at the pumps at the gas stations was R$ 6,596.
Diesel also recorded a rise at gas stations. The value of the product, used mainly by truck drivers, jumped from R$5,344 to R$5,422 in just one week. According to ANP data, the price of the product has fallen weekly since December 14th.
The rise in fuel costs takes place after the adjustment announced by Petrobras, on Tuesday (11). After 77 days without increases, the state-owned company announced that the average sale price of gasoline to distributors would rise from R$3.09 to R$3.24 per liter, an increase of 4.85%.
The increase went into effect from last Wednesday (12). As with regular gasoline, Petrobras also announced that it would raise the value of diesel transfer to distributors by 8%.
The reduction in the value of gasoline took place from the week of November 7th to 13th, when the liter of the product was sold, on average, for R$ 6,754 to the final consumer. Despite the rise this week, the value of fuel is approximately 2.8% cheaper compared to November 2021.
experts heard by CNN warn that the rise in fuel prices directly impacts all productive sectors in Brazil. In the case of diesel, it has a direct impact on the cost of freight in the country.
“Logistics in Brazil is practically all based on road transport. We left out the rail and river modal. And today this sector has a strategic situation in the country. The price of food and everything we have in the domestic market today is influenced by freight and, consequently, by diesel”, explained Ricardo Teixeira, coordinator of the MBA in Financial Management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).
Reference: CNN Brasil
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