The rise in diesel eats up in 10 days half of the bonus approved by Sánchez

The sharp increase in the price of diesel has eaten in just 10 days half of the bonus approved by the Government to lower the price of fuel.

Since the Government communicated to carriers on March 21 its intention to compensate them for the price of fuel, the cost of a liter of diesel has skyrocketed by 10 cents and is trading at

in more than 11,000 Spanish gas stations.

In the hydrocarbon sector, they link this strong increase to the Ukrainian conflict and the potential consumption restrictions that Europe faces if Russia closes the energy tap.

In this sense, they add that half of the diesel imported by the old continent comes from the Russian giant.

"European diesel depends a lot on what comes from Russian refineries. These flows continue today but not at the same rate as before. We will have to start importing diesel from other parts of the world, and this will have an impact on prices," he warned yesterday. the CEO of Cepsa

Spain, as is the case with gas, is less dependent on Russian diesel and the guarantee of supply is less threatened than in other European countries such as Germany.

According to the

10% of the diesel that Spain acquires abroad comes from the country led by

Spain, in any case, has a large refining capacity of its own and even has the capacity to export.

"Our refineries are producing as fast as they can," Wetselaar said.

However, the Spanish power does not help to offset the sharp rise in prices, as illustrated by the statistics of the

The price of a liter of diesel in Spain does not stop rising and this is going to cause the bonus to only serve so that Spaniards continue to pay when refueling the same as last March 7.

The regulations to approve the bonus, published yesterday in the

could also have other collateral effects that the Executive did not count on.

One of them may be the closure of the more than

that operate in Spain, fearful that the mechanism for advancing funds designed by the Treasury to compensate them for the bonus they have to apply to their customers will not be ready before Friday. .

"Small and medium-sized entrepreneurs will not be able to face the advance of the amount necessary to undertake the discount in the price, despite the supposed advance of liquidity that the Government has announced," the

denounced yesterday. it's a statement.

The employers' association that brings together brands such as

key in the liberalization of the sector and the introduction of greater competition, distrusts the agility of the Government to start up the system and to collect the funds in advance.

"The computer implementation of all these changes, such as the fact that the invoice has the breakdown of the purchase at the time of refueling, takes more than three days," he says.

In this sense, they ask the Executive to back down and apply a tax reduction on the final price of fuel "and not force a discount on the sale price that violates the freedom of the entrepreneur that our Constitution protects."

Some of these gas stations are among those that have reacted to the announcement of the bonus by applying a sharp increase in their prices.

Yesterday these increases continued, which in the sector again disassociate themselves from the bonus and blame it on the international price of fuel.

The Government mistrusts and the Minister of Industry,

yesterday asked the service stations for "responsibility".

In Ecological Transition they push the

to investigate the evolution of prices and the correct application of discounts.

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