Gasoline COR 95 on Wednesday will cost 32.59 lei/liter, up almost 0.40 lei on today. Diesel fuel will be sold for 29.30 lei/liter, up 0.65 lei. These are the price ceilings announced by the National Agency for Energy Regulation for June 8, IPN reports.

According to the Agency, the Platts quotations for gasoline and diesel fuel increased considerably, reaching a new record high of 1,406$ per tonne of gasoline and of 1,343$ per tonne of diesel fuel in the last session.

During the period of the last 14 days that are used by the Agency to calculate the highest prices, the quotations rose by 16% for gasoline and by 23% for diesel fuel, the rise representing about 196$ per tonne of gasoline and 251$ per tonne of  diesel fuel.

NAER noted that the situation on the international market is influenced by the Russian military aggression against Ukraine, which generates unprecedented pressure on oil products. A comparative analysis of oil prices in European states shows that in most of the cases, owing to the price capping and specific profit margin regulation mechanism, the prices in the Republic of Moldova are maintained at a relatively low level.

For comparison, at the start of last September, a liter of gasoline COR 95 cost 20.23 lei, while a liter of diesel fuel –16.42 lei.