Fuels: Regulator Says Gas Stations Do Not Go up Prices Faster than They Go Down and Advises Against Margin Fixing
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In the study carried out by ERSE, at the request of the Government, no "evidence of a plum rocket effect" was found, at a time when prices were slow to stabilize. In Spain, Portuguese pay 41.8 cents per litre more in gasoline and 25.1 cents in diesel.
In the study submitted to the Minister of Energy, the regulator found no evidence of the "plum rocket effect" in the evolution of the price of fuels in Portugal that reflected international quotations.
A study by ERSE concluded that gas stations did not derive "abuse benefit" at fuel prices. CNN's executive editor Portugal Vítor Costa analyzed the results of this study.
ERSE did not find "persistent" evidence that fuel prices are rising faster than they are going down, but admits "temporary differences in the speed with which changes in petrol and diesel prices have been reflected in pump prices".
A study indicates that in the first seven months of the year, marked by the beginning of the Middle East war, prices evolved globally in line with international purchasing costs.
In a study commissioned by the Minister of the Environment, although recognizing that the time lags in the speed with which the variations in the share of gasoline and leo gas have been passed on to the pump, the entity concludes that "the results do not suggest that the descents are passed on in a persistently slower or less complete way than the climbs.
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