The wholesale market began to gradually reduce fuel prices after limiting its exports, but retailers are not in a hurry to change tariffs at gas stations yet. This view was expressed in an interview “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” said Ivan Petrov, Deputy Dean of the Department of Economics at the University of Finance.
“This situation is especially evident in diesel prices. They are trying to explain their high prices by the presence of mainly premium diesel fuel in the oil products market of the largest Moscow region,” Petrov said. At the same time, if the authorities in St. He noted that if he had immediately responded to the course of trading on the St. Petersburg International Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange (SPIMEX), then the situation with rising fuel prices in Russia could have been avoided by simply using market leverage and no switching to manual control mode like now.
Available at SPbMTSB from the end of July observed abnormal increase in prices of main types of fuel. The Russian government banned the export of gasoline and diesel from September 21, and from October 6 the damper was adjusted and the conditions for selling petroleum products on the stock exchange were increased. As a result, fuel costs have fallen by almost 30% from record levels. According to independent expert Konstantin Tserazov, accepted Due to government measures to stabilize the market, the main indicator of fuel prices may be the ruble exchange rate.
Previously, FAS was the oil company’s to watch behind gray gasoline exports.