Understand why gasoline is so expensive

O Brazil going through a troubled period of crisis due to high inflation and its action on products that are essential for the daily lives of all Brazilians.

In view of this, in addition to basic basket, which is costing approximately 70% of the minimum wage Gasoline is another factor that is further aggravating this situation. Without a doubt, Brazilians have never paid so much for fuel as they are paying in 2016. 2022. In relation to this, there are some factors to be able to address this issue.

The first refers to the doubt about whether the Petrobras would be to blame for the high price of gasoline and diesel. In fact, the answer is simple: no. Petrobras is a public company that has existed since 1953, and never in the history of Brazil has fuel been as expensive as cooking gas. In reality, the fault lies with the current government of the Republic, which is the one who effectively decides the company's price policy, since the

Executive is the majority shareholder of the company.

In addition to who would be at fault, there is doubt, then, about the reason why the Gasoline, O diesel and the gas would be so expensive, which is also simple. The reality is that the president Jair Bolsonaro practices something called PPI (import parity price), which was adopted in 2016, after Michel Temer assumed the presidency after the coup suffered by Dilma (PT). In this way, with the PPI, whenever fuel becomes more expensive abroad, Petrobras raises the price in the national territory.

Furthermore, there are speculations as to whether the war in Ukraine would also have some kind of influence on this situation. The answer is also simple: no. The war, in fact, made the Petroleum increase its value abroad. However, as previously stated, if the PPI were not adopted by the government, this increase would not need to be passed on to the Brazilian people. After all, Petrobras manages to have access to oil right here, in Brazilian lands, and, theoretically, manufacture its own gasoline in the national territory.

Finally, many wonder: what if the PPI runs out, will there be a lack of gasoline? In reality, this is not true. The fact is that the government is not producing enough gasoline to supply Brazil, due to the lack of construction of refineries (gasoline factories) and reduced the production of those that already exist, with the intention of sell them.

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