Wholesale gasoline prices in September 2018 jumped by 10%
Alexander Klimov, photos, Maral
Rosstat has presented a report according to which in September 2018, manufacturers of gasoline managed to raise the wholesale price of their goods all 10%. In the previous two summer months the prices of manufacturers of gasoline only decreased in August by 0.2% in July, up 8.7%, i.e. already in the first month of autumn all summer decline compensated them with Lavoy.
In parallel, increased selling prices and other petroleum products. So Arctic diesel fuel (applied at temperatures below -40°C) rose over the month by 7.6%. And the cost of liquefied propane-butane, i.e. natural gas fuel, was up 7%.
The head of the Analytical centre of Independent fuel Union Grigory Bazhenov has no doubt that this rise of producer prices will be reflected in the retail fuel market. The expert noted that prices at the gas station has almost reached the level of wholesale, which allows owners of gas stations that do not belong to large networks, to cover even their operating izderzhki.