Fuels: gasoline should rise $2.65 and diesel $1.18 per liter in February

The reference values, which are those of the Gulf of Mexico in the US, marked increases in the price of gasoline, and also in the price of diesel, as anticipated The Observer this Monday .

Ursea’s report is one of the inputs that the Executive Power will use to define the fuel prices that will be in force in February. LThe official decision will be known this Tuesday.

What the official projections say

The supplier price projections, taking into account the last PPI plus other variables that the Ministry of Industrymark a price of $74.54 for a liter of Super gasoline. In other words, if the rule were followed, this product should increase $2.65 (3.7%) with respect to current values.

For him gasoil price projection to the public is $60.17 per liter, which indicates that this product should rise $1.18 (2%).

It must be remembered that on other occasions when the PPI marked increases, the authorities chose not to transfer these projections to local prices and froze prices or adjusted less than what the rule indicated.. This criterion was used on more than one occasion during 2021 and 2022.