At the very moment that the inflation worries the country, the price of gasoline explodes. How can this happen in a country already self-sufficient in oil and that has not even begun to exploit its huge and newly discovered pre-salt reserves? This explanation is difficult we will attempt to answer now.
First and foremost, we must clarify one fact: inflation Brazil is not caused by a high demand for fuel by the consumer, as was expected. In the case of gasoline, it is caused by mill owners who pass the costs of intercropping sugar cane - the raw material of anhydrous alcohol, an element added to gasoline in Brazil - to distributors, who in turn pass on costs to consumers.
Beyond this fact, there is the exorbitant tax ratio, which could only focus on one product as valuable as gasoline. Gathering all the taxes, you will reach the milestone of 41 per cent of total final price.
To refute the idea that Brazilian gasoline is one of the most expensive in the world, Petrobras said that prices in Brazil "are in line with prices in other countries that have markets derived from open and competitive. " However, the chart below, provided by the company blog, a series of deceptions.
- the green portion of the graph represents the price of the refinery without taxes;
- the plot in blue represents the profit margins, which vary depending on local market for the sale of fuels;
- and yellow portion represents the tax burden that is most responsible for the difference in prices between countries.
The price of gasoline is compared with European countries, Japan and other countries with high cost of living (and / or non-producers ), but with a per capita income much higher than in Brazil (except for China). Leaves out many countries like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, like Brazil, are producing and selling gasoline for less than a dollar a gallon ! Brazil and Norway are the only oil-producing countries in the top 15 most expensive prices in the world. See the actual situation in $ per U.S. gallon:
Now you see, heralds of the free market since the Federal Law 9478/97 (Law of oil) which relaxed the monopoly of oil and natural gas, hitherto exercised by Petrobras (Petrobras Distribuidora which is a subsidiary) that opened the fuel market in Brazil and as mobile telephony, one of the most expensive world, has only added fuel. No use complaining, saying that Brazil has oil to spare. They are "market forces". And that although since 2009, Petrobras sell a liter of gasoline for the invariant distribution £ 1.05. hoped that competition would operate the miracle of making prices fall ... and still waiting. There
an arm of the blame for high gasoline prices in Brazil. On the one hand, the structural guilty, the Government , which charges one of the heaviest tax burdens in the world, on the other, the culprit cyclical, the mill owners, who in turn blame the offseason by the need to increase the price of alcohol that is added to gasoline. At the end of that line, the consumer, that even in the same people who vote in the hope that someday these things will change. And still waiting.
Sources
http://fatosedados.blogspetrobras.com.br/2011/04/07/preco-da-gasolina-mitos-e-verdades/
http: / / www.anp.gov.br/?pg=8358
http://empresasefinancas.hsw.uol.com.br/precos-da-gasolina1.htm
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