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Facua denounces a rise of up to 79 cents in fuel and calls for the setting of maximum prices

MADRID, 14 Jun.

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Facua denounces a rise of up to 79 cents in fuel and calls for the setting of maximum prices

MADRID, 14 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Facua-Consumers in Action has denounced that fuels accumulate a year-on-year rise of up to 79 cents per liter, which has led it to hit maximum prices, and has called on the Government to set maximum prices "as the only effective solution to the shortage" .

According to data from the association, gasoline 95 E5 has stood this Monday at an average of 2,116 euros per liter and diesel A at 2,021 euros. Thus, the price of a liter of gasoline is 75 cents more (55.4%) than on the same day in 2021, when it was 1,362 euros, while in the case of diesel, the increase reaches 79 cents per liter ( 64.4%) on the 1,229 euros of a year ago.

Specifically, the gas station with the most expensive price for gasoline 95 this Monday, located in the Navarran town of Olloki, charged 2,389 euros per liter. In the case of diesel A, the highest price, applied at a gas station in Granada, was 2,259 euros.

Faced with this situation, Facua demands the setting of maximum prices, a system that was abandoned in 1998, and denounces that the sector "has mocked" the discount of 20 cents per liter approved by the Government, "of which three quarters come from the General State Budgets (PGE)".

For this reason, it asks the Executive to ask Brussels for a regulatory change so that the Member States can intervene in the prices of automotive fuels "establishing caps periodically, the only effective solution to the scarcity suffered by consumers."

The consumer association considers that the discount of five cents that the sector had to assume from its profit margins "has been a pantomime".

Likewise, it affirms that it continues without receiving a response to the complaints it filed against 230 gas stations before the Ministry of Consumption, the regional authorities for consumer protection and the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC), for raising their prices five cents or plus the same day that the discounts came into force, on April 1.