The government ordered today a reduction of 16.85 pesos to the price of the gallon of the avtur and announced that, for the week of March 18 to 24, the lower subsidy in more than two years management: 38.5 million pesos, to avoid increases in gasoline and optimal diesel, among others fuels.
“As we have been reporting for just over a year, the crisis in Eastern Europe has caused gasoline and diesel to reach historical price levels. Although the price of crude oil has maintained a tendency to stability, This has not been the case in the case of derivatives,” said the Vice Minister of Internal Commerce, Ramón Pérez Fermín.
He reiterated that the government “has always put the people first,” and displayed a extraordinary subsidy planwith which they have been able to mitigate “the abrupt increases week after week, keeping them frozen for more than a year”.
The vice minister assured that with this sacrifice the government seeks not to affect consumers and contribute to the decline in inflation and its effects on the country.
“To put into perspective the great relief represented by the price reduction in recent days, in the year 2022, for weeks 11 and 12, the same ones in which we find ourselves, the government provided a subsidy of 1,249 million and 663 million pesosrespectively,” said Pérez Fermín.
For the week of March 18 to 24, 2023, it is provided that fuels are sold at the following prices:
- Premium gasoline: 293.60 pesos per gallon
- Regular gasoline: 274.50 pesos per gallon
- Regular diesel: 221.60 per gallon
- Optimum diesel: 241.10 pesos per gallon
- Avtur: 203.39 pesos per gallon
- Kerosene: 338.10 pesos per gallon
- Fuel oil #6: 192.11 pesos per gallon
- Fuel oil 1%: 211.77 pesos per gallon
- LPG: 147.60 pesos per gallon
- Natural gas: 28.97 pesos per m3
