The shared transport company Uber announced that it will increase the prices of trips and deliveries in United States and Canada to compensate the drivers due to the rise in the cost of gasolinewho pay themselves.
In an entry on the company’s official blog, the head of operations for drivers in the US and Canada, Liza Winshipexplained late on Friday that the price increase will last for at least two months and that it will result in an additional fee to the rate of 45 or 55 cents for passenger transport and 35 or 45 cents for delivery of food through Uber Eats.
The difference in the amount of the fee will depend on the location where each service is produced.
This fee will go directly and in its entirety to the drivers and will apply even to electric vehiclesa measure that the company defends by ensuring that the transition to this type of car is thus promoted, since the drivers They will charge more without incurring additional costs.
The gasoline and diesel again exceeded their historical maximums after becoming more expensive in the last week by 4.4% and 5.6%, respectively, coinciding with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and with the possibility that a global embargo on Russian oil will further boost plus fuel prices.
After this new increase, the tenth consecutive for both fuels, the gasoline is already 10.3% above its record price, which was in force for more than 9 years until it was exceeded at the end of January, while diesel marks a price 9.4% higher than its previous maximum, also 2012.
Behind the escalation that fuels have suffered since the beginning of the year, there is mainly the rise in oil prices, which is currently at historical levels, and whose price could continue to rise after the embargo announced by the US and the UK on imports of Russian crude, a decision that the European Union does not support, but does not rule out either.
