Price raids have begun at gas stations. Gas stations in Bukovina were found selling diesel fuel for 70 hryvnias.
The State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection has begun inspecting gas station networks that have received complaints about high fuel prices. The agency announced this on its website on Sunday. LIGA.Business.
For example, in the Chernivtsi region, officials inspected five PP-OIL LLC gas stations where diesel fuel was being sold for 70 hryvnias per liter. "As of May 22, the inspection concluded that no fuel was being sold at the gas stations," the statement read.
Gas station chains warn that price gouging is unacceptable under martial law. Fines and other administrative penalties will be imposed for doing so.
Meanwhile, WOG Holding Director Andrey Pivovarsky, in an interview with the Orestocracy project, stated that, barring any force majeure, Ukraine could overcome the diesel fuel shortage within a month.
The situation with A95 gasoline is more complicated, because “there is a shortage of 95 in Europe.”
The price of fuel will depend on its cost in Europe.
"It's not even a question of the dollar exchange rate; it's a question of how much it will cost Europe, how much shipping will cost. Today it's 52, tomorrow it could be 48, then 53 hryvnias," he explained.
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