Medvedev said about the exhaustion of the limit of growth of fuel prices

18 September 2018

Who will stop the growth of fuel prices

At the meeting with members of the government Dmitry Medvedev called to prevent the growth of fuel prices in the near future. According to the Prime Minister, we cannot allow a recurrence of the spring scenario, where the filling literally every day changed increased cost of fuel.

Fuel crisis began in April, shortly after the presidential election. Price increase prodolzhalsya in may. Only after the government reduced the excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel, the market began to stabilize.

As he noted, with another sharp rise in fuel prices, the government may increase export duties on oil and oil products: "As you know, the opportunity the legislation provides for, but hope that this tool still the government use is not required, and expect that the managers of oil companies in this sense that I said, heard".

experts identified regions with the most affordable fuel. Taking into account average retail prices and wages more than other lucky inhabitants of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug: on the one salary they can buy an average of 2 010 liters. On the leaderboard, followed by Moscow and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.