Athens Gas Sales: Why Fuel Price Increases

The rise of their honor and weakening of the industry in Northern Greece explains the President of Attica, Maria Ziaga at ERT. In particular, Maria Ziaga says that the petrol sales industry in Northern Greece dies because there the Greeks leave and go across Bulgaria and Turkey to buy cheap petrol, because in these countries the Special Fuel Tax is small. “In Greece there is no cheap fuel, when 60% of the fuel price is a Special Consumption Tax and it also has VAT, a tax tax on tax is unreasonable. How are we going to cope,” he asked. “We have said many times that oil is a stockpile. Unfortunately his honor plays according to the interests of the great and we pay it all the rest. So as long as there are unpleasant international events, the fuel that comes to us, the petrol companies, is at an increased price. I already see prices rising, pinching in the last month and it was next that the prices of plain unleaded in Attica reached over EUR 1.90 a litre. We change prices on the basis of invoices. Each of us has a company from which he supplies fuel. So the invoice comes where the company has purchased one of the two refineries we have in the country with a new price, I am required by the law, otherwise I have a fine or raise or lower the selling price. Now with the new tariffs there can be no price below EUR 1.90/litre and I see prices at EUR 1.73/litre, I’m going crazy. Isn’t that what the government sees? Checking there is a price of 2.40 and I’m sure that in order to put it, people will have similar invoices, but the check will go to those who are supposedly cheap. How many times have I personally made it up as president of the industry to say strange are these cheap prices, they don’t exist. And they don’t exist because they’re retail prices below the wholesale price of refineries, so? Is it possible to buy 1.80 and sell 1.50? That is not possible, something else is happening.” “We are asking for a cleansing of space, and that is why the government passed a law, which any store they catch adulterating, having tampered with pumps or having illegal oil for two years shuts it down,” concluded Mrs. Zaga. Source: ERT