At levels close to 1.4 euros per liter or even lower, the starting price is fuel oil as according to APE-MPE information from the market, a large oil refining group acted at a significant discount to the market price of the offer.

According to the same information, the discount is 6 cents per liter (7.5 cents including VAT), which means that the starting price from 1.42-1.45 euros, which was the last estimate, may be reduced (depending on the commercial policies of each company or gas station owner) up to 1.37-1.38 euros per liter.

Starting prices will be set tomorrow with the start of the heating season. According to sources in the oil market, demand, at least in the early days of the winter heating season, will be sluggish due to high prices, as well as relatively favorable weather conditions, at least in southern Greece.

Heating compensation: amendment submitted to parliament

An amendment had previously been submitted to Parliament with legal technical improvements for the heating allowance. In particular, it is specified that the amount of the subsidy is twenty cents (0.20) euros per liter.

The heating compensation is calculated on a one-time basis on the value of invoices before VAT issued by refineries, companies licensed to trade in class A petroleum products that import fuel oil, and holders of a license to sell fuel oil that import, as beneficiaries of the subsidy.

It is also provided that the final total amount of the subsidy is calculated on the basis of the total number of liters of fuel available as defined in Law 3054/2002 (A’ 230) in the domestic market by the beneficiaries of the subsidy. petrol stations, fuel oil sellers and end users, residential consumers, industrial and commercial consumers.

^{With information from APE-MPE}