According to a report published this Friday in the Official Journal, the price of gasoline in the Azores increases by 1.9 cents per liter on Monday, while the price of diesel fuel falls by 4.8 cents per liter.
Azorean’s chief executive justifies the “adjustment of the maximum selling price to the public” of the fuel by “recent developments in the international oil and energy reference market.”
In May, unleaded gasoline with an octane rating of 95 in the Azores costs 1.523 euros per liter, which is 1.9 cents more than in April (1.504).
The price of diesel fuel decreased by 4.8 cents per liter, from 1.489 euros per liter to 1.441 euros.
This Friday, the order to set prices for non-ferrous diesel fuel for agriculture and fisheries was not published in the Official Journal.
Fuel oil with a sulfur content of less than or equal to 1%, intended for other uses, supplied in bulk to distribution companies on each island falls by 3.3 cents to 0.585 euros per kilogram.
Fuel oil for electricity generation, which is supplied in bulk to distribution companies on each island, saw a drop in prices on São Miguel Island from 624.21 to 591.87 euros/t and on Terceira from 653.15 to 620.81 euros/t.
In Pico, it drops from 754.54 to 717.87 euros per ton, and in Faial, from 740.45 to 703.78 euros per ton.
The price of butane gas sold in cylinders, by pipeline or in bulk, does not change and varies from 1.348 euros per kilogram (in bulk) to 1.618 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 each month and in amounts equivalent to the change in the monthly European price (PE)”.
In March, the executive branch of the Azores increased the oil and energy tax (ISP) by 10 cents, justifying this decision with “a trend towards normalization of fuel prices on the world market to values similar to those before the geopolitical crisis. provoked to war in Ukraine.
The ISP costs 46.5 cents per liter for petrol and 24.2 cents for diesel.
The ISP in the Azores reduced nine cents for gasoline and 11.3 cents for diesel in August 2022.
The Azorean chief has already cut 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: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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