“The price at the gas station has fallen below the price from which the increases began. From what I saw today, when I passed by the gas station, I saw like 7.70 lei – the price of gasoline, lower than 7.80, as it was before,” Energy Minister Virgil Popescu said on Wednesday.

Referring to the compensatory measure of 50 paise per fuel, the energy minister claims that companies have reduced prices even though it was a voluntary measure.

• “Companies have made access voluntary, it’s a voluntary measure, and it’s been seen that this partnership between government and industry has worked and prices have come down. And when the quotations fell, the prices at the gas stations also fell,” said Popescu.

He did not want to make other assessments about the development of prices in the next period.

• “I would not like to make predictions, and no one can make predictions in a very volatile market. I can tell you that only from the analyzes I noticed a decrease in the demand for oil, but it may be short-term, it is impossible to estimate,” said the Minister of Energy.

How much is a liter of gasoline and diesel today in Bucharest

Program data Price monitormanaged by the Competition Council, where they are exhibited fuel prices without a discount of 0.5 lei/l (which, however, is applied at the time of payment), shows that in Bucharest the lowest price for gasoline is at the Petrom station (Doctor Herescu Street), respectively 8.17 lei. Applying a 50 money discount results in a price of 7.67 lei.

The information is also confirmed in the statement Peco-online.rowhere is everything prices are indicated with a discount of 50 bucks. Data analyzed by HotNews.ro show that the 5 main gas station chains Petrom, Lukoil, OMV, MOL, Rompetrol had the following prices:

Standard gasoline:

• Petrom: from 7.67 to 7.74 lei
• Lukoil: from 7.77 to 7.78 lei
• Mole: from 7.78 to 7.79 lei
• OMV: from 7.79 to 7.82 lei
• Rompetrol: from 7.87 to 7.92 lei

Standard diesel:

• Petrom: from 8.31 to 8.34 lei
• Lukoil: from 8.43 to 8.45 lei
• Mole: from 8.38 to 8.45 lei
• OMV: from 8.39 to 8.42 lei
• Rompetrol: from 8.47 to 8.52 lei

Peco-online data show that the average price of a liter of standard gasoline was 8.17 lei on July 1, 2022, when the compensation measure of 50 lei per liter of gasoline came into force.

At the same time, on Tuesday, August 2, the average price of a liter of standard gasoline reached 7.85 lei.

Decreases are also observed in diesel. Thus, the average price of a liter of standard diesel fell from 8.73 lei on July 1, 2022 to an average price of 8.47 lei on August 2, 2022.

The constant rise in prices, before the intervention of the state on July 1, it has been observed since May this year.

So, according to Peco-online, on May 4, 2022, the average price of a liter of standard gasoline was 7.81 leiwhile the average price of a liter of standard diesel was 8.69 lei.

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