The authorities of the Crimea are holding a “gasoline question” in special control, but fuel prices are growing

Growth factors

Today, at the peak of the holiday season, the price of AI-95 gasoline at the gas station of the peninsula reaches 69 rubles. In the neighboring Krasnodar Territory, the average price per liter of this brand of gasoline is 65 rubles, and on average in Russia — 63 rubles. Such data gives an online resource of monitoring of retail prices for gasoline in the regions of the Russian Federation. Crimea and Sevastopol are among the subjects with expensive fuel, along with the republics of the North Caucasus. There are several reasons for this, and they are mostly objective in nature, market experts say.

The difference in gasoline in Crimea compared to the mainland part of Russia can be associated with the growth of seasonal demand, local fuel lack of a reduction in its production and repair work at oil refineries— noted in a commentary RIA Novosti Crimea The general director of the independent analytical agency of the oil and gas sector Tamara Safonov.

Logistics also affects the cost, the expert notes. The difference in gas in the Crimea and on the mainland of the Russian Federation takes into account the costs of transportation, which depend on the type of transportation by sea, road or railway transport.

Stanislav Mitrakhovich, a leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund, also indicated to the complex logistics and geographical position of Crimea as the main causes of the high -cost fuel in Crimea. To import oil products on the peninsula, according to him, is much more difficult than in other regions.

Economic analyst, candidate of economic sciences Sergey Zemlyachev on the air of Radio «Satellite in the Crimea»He stated that in the summer, during the holiday season and the harvesting campaign, the demand for fuel is growing, respectively, its price increases. This situation is observed every year.

In addition, our traders, purchasing fuel on the exchange, lay inflation expectations into its price. Enterprises still believe that there will be a rise in prices, and they try to lay this compensation in the price at which they will acquire it. This is reflected in the final value of the product for the consumer— he said.

Which will help stabilize prices

Analysts agree that the problem cannot be solved by administrative influence. Measures such as, for example, an embargo for the export of gasoline, to which the government resorted last year to stabilize prices in the domestic market, are more exceptional and introduced for the short term. And the rigid directives of the authorities not to increase gasoline prices will rather lead to an increase in the deficit in the fuel market, experts explain.

It is necessary to develop enterprises that are engaged in a full cycle: both production and at the same time transportation of oil products. In the Krasnodar Territory, the Rostov region there are such enterprises, so there the cost of gasoline is lower. It is necessary to stimulate the development of oil products in the Crimea, and this will affect the price reduction— Sergey Zemlyachev is sure.