A number of filling stations posted higher prices of gasoline. A liter of gasoline “95” now costs 20 lei, IPN reports.

The new price per liter of gasoline “95” is 20 lei, while a liter of gasoline “98” costs 20.80 lei. At other oil companies, the price of gasoline “95” remained 19.25 lei, while gasoline “98” is sold for 20.29 lei.

The prices of diesel fuel and liquefied petroleum gas remained unchanged for now.

Fuel prices started to grow in the middle of last December and have risen for multiple times since then. These prices were also discussed in a meeting of the Supreme Security Council. At the beginning of March, the presidential administration submitted a denouncement over carter agreements on the fuels market to the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Since March 2019, in accordance with the amendments made to the law on the oil products market, oil seller have set by themselves the retail prices of the main fuels within a markup of 10%. Recently, Parliament adopted a bill to cap fuel prices. The oil companies that are members of the Foreign Investors Association said such a law will negatively influence their economic activity.