The president of Ancap stressed that the government pays attention to achieving a balance in the monopolistic accounts, without losing focus on not losing citizenship.
The president of the National Fuel, Alcohol and Portland Administration (Ancap), Alejandro Stipanicic, expressed his opinion on the government’s decision to maintain fuel prices, despite the recommendations of the Energy and Water Services Regulatory Unit (Ursea) and described it as “reasonable.”
The leader assured that the government’s decision “is within the reasonableness with which it is managing the Executive power the internal prices. In that sense, he commented that “analyzing the recent situation, it is observed that the Executive does not deviate from the PPI and continues to maintain prudence and tends to stabilize prices rather than accompany the variations of the international market.”
The president of Ancap He assured that the price margin could have made a difference in the government’s decision. In that sense, Stipanicic He stressed that diesel should have gone up by about twenty cents and gasoline could have gone down by one or two pesos. “I don’t have the numbers yet, but I think we are going to be two pesos above the import parity,” explained the leader in dialogue with Radio Carve.
However, he highlighted the fact that the decisions of the Executive power They were always linked to the objective of not causing citizens to lose money and for the costs to be covered by Ancap, although without losing focus on achieving balance in their accounts. In that sense, he commented that the state company lost 60 million dollars so far this year due to fuel prices set by Import Price Parity (PPI)
Regarding the situation, Stipanicic explained that “the margins in the world have shrunk a lot and there is really a very big threat in the world on the supply of oil.” However, he admitted that in recent days prices remained stable despite the war in Middle East that has the oil market in suspense.
Balance in monopoly accounts
Regarding the monopolistic accounts, Stipanicic said that this afternoon they will meet in Ancap with the aim of seeing the accumulated results until the month of September. Meanwhile, he announced that the accounts show a balance in the accounts of monopolistic market. The leader explained that “the most important thing” is the balance of the accounts since the monopoly income is always given to the population.
With this, Stipanicic recalled that in the last seven quarters the monopolistic accounts of Ancap They approached zero, achieving a balance. Furthermore, he commented that the state company’s billings are around 3.5 billion dollars, so a difference in the accounts of 10 million dollars does not make a difference.
“The balance of the monopolistic market means that the prices offered in the country are perfectly aligned with the cost of crude oil and the operating cost of the company.” refinery”, the leader explained.
Source: Ambito
