As stipulated, and in the case of a historical and unpublished moment, YPF had a decrease in fuel prices nationwide, when at the beginning of each month the opposite happened, especially from the management of Javier Milei onwards, except for last October, when gasoline barely receded their values by 1%.
This new measure began to rule since this Thursday, May 1 and is already registered on the boards of the service stations at the local level. And as the hours transcurred, some expectations were also generated for what was going to happen in other oil companies, following the path of the state oil company and that has more consumers nationwide. In this sense, the low was between 1.96% and 8%, depending on the city.
In this sense, YPF applied a cut in its fuels of 4% average nationwide following the decrease in international oil prices, the elimination of Crawling PEG, the tax component and biofuels, as reported from the company.
Thus, the government decided to re -postponed the update of the fuel tax scheduled for May, a movement that usually has a direct transfer to the prices of the gasoline and the diesel in suppliers. The official intention, as happened with public services rates, is to resume inflation deceleration after two months in which the indicator was on the rise.
Taking into account this panorama, loading gasoline in the city is already somewhat cheaper than a few days ago, which is still good news, since it represents a “little saver” within so many pale inflationary ones, although everyone expects the same to happen with food, especially.
After the last reduction, which in Rafaela was around 2%, YPF fuel values were as follows:
* YPF: Super gasoline, $ 1,249 (before, $ 1,274). Infinia: $ 1,435 (before $ 1,527). Diesel: $ 1,257 (formerly $ 1,296). Infinia diesel: $ 1,392. (Before $ 1,513).
In this way, the most pronounced reduction of the state oil company was in the premium gasoline, whose price fell 5.97%, that is, 92 pesos, as well as the Premium diesel, which costs 121 pesos less than last month. While the super naphtha registered the lowest variation with a 2.01%decrease, as it descends just about 25 pesos, as well as the common diesel, which is now 39 pesos cheaper.
SE SUMO SHELL
Already on the day of this Friday, and after YPF dropped 4.5% the price of their gasoline and diesel, more oil companies were added to the measure. Its Shell and Axion competitors decided to join the decline in their service stations at the national level, and the reduction ranges between 2% and 8%, and the area and the type of fuel depends.
With regard to Rafaela, Shell accompanied YPF’s decision but not axion, which for now has preferred to plant and maintain April prices. Thus, Shell’s values fell as follows in our environment:
* Shell: Super gasoline: $ 1,325 (formerly $ 1,336). V-Power: $ 1,542 (formerly $ .1598). Evolux Diesel: $ 1,346 (formerly $ 1,366). V-Power Diesel: $ 1,516 ((before $ 1,578).
For its part, Axion shows the following values in the local service stations, without price variation and maintaining those of April, at least for now:
* Axion: NAFTA above: $ 1.315. Quakes: $ 1.591. Diesel: $ 1.393. Quantium Diesel: $ 1.578.
In this way, the government expects the sales to impact positively on May inflation. The administration of Javier Milei awaits that the prices of the fifth month of the year are below 2.5%.
Why did prices down?
Month by month, companies modify the values of the gasoline and the diesel from four large items in the equation: the reference price Brent, the exchange rate, the taxes and the price of the biofuels. The international price fell considerably the first weeks of April. As a context, on Wednesday, April 9, it was positioned at US $ 59. Yesterday, Tuesday opened at US $ 65.27. Sale values respond to import parity, so changes in the price impact the equation. At the same time, with the exit of the stocks and the depreciation of the currency an impact on the rise in the price of fuels was expected. However, the equation was on the decline after six months of consecutive increases. On this occasion, downward Brent’s international price, one of the main variables to define the price of fuels in Argentina, the suspension of the application of national taxes is added. “This measure seeks to sustain price stability in a context of inflationary deceleration and macroeconomic consolidation, prioritizing relief for consumers without affecting the competitiveness of the energy sector,” they said from the Ministry of Energy.
