In the pursuit of cheap fuel, motorists have begun to buy counterfeit

7 June 2018

Is it possible to buy gasoline on the ads?

Despite all the government attempts to stabilize the situation on the domestic fuel market, prices continue to creep up uncontrollably. Over the past week, gasoline has again risen in price almost on rouble: now litre AI-92 costs about 42 rubles, AI — 46 rubles. And given the fact that the previously scheduled July 1, the decline in state excise tax has already occurred on 1 June. Not surprisingly, many motorists began to look for ways to save on fuel. Various schemes tried to understand the experts "Kommersant".

One of the clear signs of demand growth on the "left" gasoline is a rapid increase in the number of proposals on the subject in popular services. There you can find not only fuel sellers, but also buyers, many of whom say weekly or monthly volume of purchase, expected price, and even preferred filling.

With this in mind to find the gasoline or diesel fuel at a price below the average is not too difficult. But what will it fuel? There are several ways the appearance of such counterfeit fuel, but regardless of its origin, one should understand that miracles do not happen.

is it Possible to find a quality the "left" of gasoline?

Whatever said these dealers, the chance to find a really high quality fuel that was produced at the official refinery, is extremely small. There is an assumption that filling too much wind on the cost of fuel, so buying gasoline around, you can save some money, getting the same fuel.

However, as at the moment filling stations are not oil companies a gold mine. The major players in this segment has repeatedly stated that the retail network of filling stations now do not even out the level of self-sufficiency and causes damage. Even if it is not, the fuel producers are really profitable to sell oil and fuel abroad, rather than send them to the domestic market (actually, in this lies the cause of skyrocketing prices in recent months).

Thus, the most popular ways to get cheaper fuel in some way connected with the reduction of its quality. Private sellers can offer gasoline AI-92 under the guise of AI-95, to sell diluted fuel or the fuel from the illegal refineries. In any of these cases, the car will not say thank you, especially if we are talking about a modern car.

Technically sophisticated cars demanding to the quality of the fuel, which for anybody is not a secret. System or combined direct injection, high compression ratio, a tendency to the emergence of a detonation, delicate fuel injection equipment and other factors can lead to the fact that the car will either refuse to go on such an underground fuel or one of its systems will fail. In this case, the game definitely would not be worth the candle: to pay for repairs will have much more than able to save on gas.

Filling the fuel card

Another known way to "cheat the system" is a gas station on corporate fuel cards. Unscrupulous employees of companies that do not carefully monitor their transport Department, we can offer outbid they have gasoline or diesel with a small discount. To refuel, you can even on the official gas station, just to pay for will use a fuel card.

At first glance, everything is quite good: the buyer receives the conditioned fuel with this filling and a little saves. But we should remember two factors. First, in this case, you cannot obtain proof of purchase: it will take the intermediary, which subsequently will have to pass it to your employer. So in case of problems with the machine to prove the fact of purchase of the gasoline on this gas station would be very difficult. Second, this fraudulent scheme in its pure form is a support of corruption.

is the game Worth the candle?

In most cases, the above-described scheme allows you to buy fuel at a price below retail for 3-5 rubles. It is about 10% from the current level of official stations. Whether such savings? With average mileage of 20,000 kilometres per year and the optimistic flow rate of 10 liters per 100 kilometers turns out that a month can save approximately 670 rubles. It is unlikely that this amount of worth to risk the health of your iron horse. This particularly applies to cars (not even the new and expensive) with a relatively modern and sophisticated engines, where any extra sneeze can result in tens of thousands of rubles for headaches.

How to save on fuel?

If we are talking about notional savings of 10 %, then it can be achieved by using much less risky options. The easiest and most affordable way to reduce fuel consumption by 10 %. It will have to change driving style, smoothly press a pedal of gas and to increase the distance from a moving car (traffic jams this is not always possible), so as not to impede waste and adhere to other rules known to all. 

In traffic congestion not much to yekonomiki, so a reasonable solution may be the choice of more free roads or less crowded time. You can go to work earlier so as not to get in a strong tube. 

Such simple measures will save 10 % of fuel costs. Another thing is that the proposed options will not suit everyone.

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