The farmers are astounded at the changes made in the prices of oil products lately. These consider the reductions and rises in the prices of diesel fuel during the last three weeks are manipulating, IPN reports.
The head of the National Farmers Union “UniAgroProtect” Alexandru Slusari, in a press release, says that after the oil companies raised the prices of diesel fuel by 1.1 lei at the request of the Government at the end of May, the National Agency for Energy Regulation (NAER) set the price ceiling at 13.83 lei per liter, a decrease of 0.80 lei compared with the prices announced by operators.
“It seems that we have witnessed a show during several weeks. The oil companies increase the prices of diesel fuel by 1.1 lei. The Government makes a call to the NAER, which intervenes and reduces the prices by 0.30 lei. In two weeks, the prices are raised again by 0.52 lei so as to compensate the oil companies for the inconvenience caused after the 1.1 lei rise in prices was corrected by the NAER,” said Alexandru Slusari, noting that the diesel fuel prices during the last three weeks rose by 1.3 lei per liter.
According to the press release, they analyzed the evolution of the prices of crude oil and established that two weeks before May 31, when the NAER set the first price ceiling at 13.85 lei per liter of diesel fuel, the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil oscillated between US$48.5 and US$49.5. “During the next two weeks, until June 14, the prices didn’t change significantly. Moreover, these tended to decrease slightly. What is thus the reason for the considerable rise in diesel fuel prices announced yesterday by the NAER?” asked Alexandru Slusari.
He also said that the international Platt's Mediterranean quotations, based on which the gasoline and diesel fuel price ceilings are determined in accordance with the new methodology of the NAER, can be found out for money, not in the open media space, while the Agency does not publish the evolution of these quotations.
According to the new methodology of the NAER, the retail price ceilings of gasoline, diesel fuel and liquefied petroleum gas are set once in 14 calendar days. On June 14, the Agency set the price ceiling at 16.25 lei per liter of gasoline coded 95, up from 16.21 lei during the past two week, at 14.35 lei per liter of diesel fuel, an increase of 0.52 lei, and at 7.29 lei per liter of liquefied petroleum gas, up from 7.20 lei.
