Gasoline hypnosis: fuel prices will continue to grow in spite of everything

Oil Resursy05-03-2008 Petrol hypnosis: fuel prices will continue to grow in spite of all oil companies are again ready to society and government for a new round of prices for automotive fuel. And again, they justify this deficiency, which supposedly will come in April. However, the objective reasons for the deficit is not, experts say. Antimonopolschiki, in turn, is suspected of oil in the artificial inflation of fuel crisis. Last week, the wake-up call was a letter to the president of the Moscow Fuel Association Eugene Arkush. In it he warned Mayor Yuri Luzhkov of an impending shortage of fuel, which will come in April-May due to maintenance work at key refineries, Moscow and Yaroslavl. "It means virtually cease production at the Moscow Refinery gasoline grades A-92 and Ai-95 with the restoration of the specified amount only to the middle of May" - warns Arkush. A similar situation occurred in November last year. It is difficult to isolate the impact of this particular factor on the then-growing fuel prices - petrol rose in price jumps, punctuated by tacit election a "moratorium". Nevertheless, the fact remains - from September to November last year, the wholesale cost of gasoline has increased by 20% and the cost of diesel fuel by 40%.