The Fair Fuel Prices agreement will expire this week. The companies had anticipated the rise in August and applied an adjustment of around 4.5% average.
After a four-month period with increases of 4.5% per month in gasoline, the agreement of Fair Fuel Prices will expire on August 15 and there is still no date for a meeting between the Government and the main oil companies from the country. The companies brought forward the August rise and applied an adjustment of around 4.5% average.
Likewise, in the first eight months of the year, the price of gasoline is more than 20 points below the inflation. From January to August, with two four-month periods of fair prices, the gasoline increased by 40.7%.
Almost 25 percentage points per below inflation general as of August, which would be at approximately 65%, projecting the 50.7% reported as of June, plus inflation for July, which will be released next Tuesday, which is estimated to be somewhat above 7%, and that for August, which all consultants discount rapidly compared to July and above 8%.
As NA learned, the Secretary of Energy would have planned in the coming weeks to summon the directors of YPF, PAE (Axion), Raízen (Shell) and Transfigura (Puma) to coordinate the increase guidelines for the next four-month period with the one that would close the management of the present government.
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Although the agreement was established until August 15, the increases corresponding to August were already applied in the first 72 hours of the month, when all theoil companies They advanced the increases by one week for the second consecutive month and readjusted prices by 4.5% on average.
The adjustments had been carried out on the 15th of each month, but in July the increase was on the national weekend of July 9 (cutting a week) and this month they marked between August 2 and 3. There is a 15-day window that begins to run from Monday until the beginning of September where it would be 30 days from last increase.
Source: Ambito
