According to the order published this Friday in the Official Journal, the price of gasoline in the Azores will increase on Sunday by 4.9 cents per liter and the price of diesel by 9.4 cents per liter.
The Azores executive justifies the “adjustment of the maximum public selling price” of the fuel by “recent developments in the international oil and energy reference price market.”
Over two months, gasoline in the Azores rose in price by 9.8 cents per liter, and diesel fuel by 18.5 cents per liter.
After rising by 9.1 cents per liter at the beginning of September, the price of diesel increased again (9.4 cents) to €1.539 per liter.
Gasoline registered an increase equal to September (4.9 cents) and now costs 1.633 euros per liter.
The price of non-ferrous diesel fuel for agriculture and fishing, determined in a different order, also increases by 9.4 cents per liter.
Colored and labeled diesel fuel consumed in agriculture now costs €1.168 per liter, while the price of colored and labeled diesel fuel consumed in fisheries is set at €0.978 per liter.
Fuel oil with a sulfur content of less than or equal to 1%, classified with CN codes from 27101951 to 27101962, intended for other consumption, supplied in bulk to the premises of distribution companies on each island, is set at a price of 0.695 euros per kilogram. .
The one with the CN code 27079999 costs 0.740 euros per kilogram.
The price of butane gas sold in cylinders, pipes or in bulk does not change and ranges from 1348 euros per kilogram (in bulk) to 1618 euros per kilogram (24-liter bottle made of lightweight materials, sold to the public at the point of consumption).
Maximum oil and energy prices in the Azores “change on the 1st of every month and in amounts equivalent to the change in the value of the monthly European price (PE).
In March, the Azores executive increased the tax rate on oil and energy products (ISP) by 10 cents, justifying this decision by “the trend towards normalization of fuel prices on the world market to values similar to those that existed before the geopolitical crisis.” crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.”
The ISP charges 46.5 cents per liter for petrol and 24.2 cents for diesel.
In August 2022, ISP prices in the Azores were reduced by nine cents for gasoline and 11.3 cents for diesel.
The Azores boss has already reduced the ISP by four cents for gasoline and two cents for diesel in November 2021 and by 11 cents for both fuels in April 2022.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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