The rise means that from this Tuesday filling the car’s tank with this product is on average $135 more expensive.
This calculation is based on a 45-liter tank and takes as a reference Super naphtha, which increased by $3 per liter, and began to be sold at stations at $73.41. In other words, $3,303.45 pesos are needed to acquire that amount of gasoline.
The same exercise, but taking January 2021 as a starting point, shows that this fuel increased $15.06 (25.8%) per liter to date. On that date last year you could load 45 liters of Super 95 with $2,625.75. Today, to buy that same amount, $677.7 more are needed.
In the case of 50-S diesel, the new price is $52.94. From January 2021 to date the price per liter has increased by $12.54 (31%).
In that period, the average price of oil went from US$55 in January 2021 to US$83, which was the average for January 2022.
Since the application of the PPI began and to date, the variation in international prices has been partially transferred to retail prices. For example, in June and in a pandemic context, the adjustment was less than what the numbers indicated to prioritize the recovery of activity. And in other months the rate was frozen even when the reference indicated an upward adjustment.
For the case of supergas the correction in its price means that the 13-kilo bottle that had a cost to the public of $730.08 (without shipping) pase to cost $769; that is to say $39 more than what it cost until yesterday. This widely used energy in homes and that is subsidized had a frozen price for 8 months.
