In a battle of FAS and the oil companies will lose the pockets of citizens

Rules igry05-02-2009 In the battle of FAS and the oil companies will lose the pockets of citizens of the FAS again threatened oil companies with fines for excessive prices for fuel. However, experts doubt that the price of petrol should fall in proportion to the price of oil. Why would not support the oil industry, even at the expense of citizens? Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is again facing the oil companies to proceedings over inflated, in its view, the price of fuel. At this time, FAS intends to institute proceedings against all companies that sells petroleum products in retail outlets. "According to monitoring data, we identified 251 companies in retail, they violate the antitrust laws," - said the FAS head Igor Artemyev. However, this is not the first chapter in the history of antitrust authorities and oil companies. Cause of misunderstanding between the parties was a "conflict positions. Antimonopoly Service of Russia believes that the price of gasoline and diesel fuel are reduced too slow pace. That is, according to FAS, as oil prices from July's record fell by more than three times, then the price of oil would have to decline is comparable with that figure. After all, in Europe, says it is this dynamic in fuel prices. Recall that the FAS has already fined companies as Rosneft, Gazprom Neft, LUKOIL, TNK-BP to the sum of 1.1 billion rubles. up to 1,5 billion rubles. for abusing its dominant position in the market of fuel this summer.