Russia’s prime minister Mikhail Mishoustin during a report in the State Duma announced a difficult situation with fuel prices in 2020, but he justified the growth in the fact that it was not higher than inflation. In the current year, he stressed, the authorities will continue to keep the cost of fuel under control, RIA Novosti reports.
According to him, it is assumed to work in this direction using all available tools, including legislative.
Apparently, we are talking about the correction of the damping mechanism, which has actually earned from May 1, although the project of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Energy is only being considered in the government and will be approved later.
The project states that the conditional price of gasoline in the demural formula will decline until 2023, and then indexed for three percent each year. For diesel fuel, the annual indexation of the price in the damper mechanism from 2022 will be not five percent, but three.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Energy separately suggested prohibiting the export of gasoline from Russia for three months. The deputy head of FAS Vitaly Korolev called such a measure to the ultimate.
Vice-Prime Minister Alexander Novak stated that in 2020 the rise in gasoline prices remained within inflation, and, for example, the AI-92 brand has risen in price only by two percent.