According to a survey published by the IBGE (Pnad Contínua), the impoverishment of the population produced by the prolonged economic crisis combined with rising unemployment and the price of LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas) cylinder led one-fifth of Brazilian families to use firewood or charcoal for cooking. Today, 14 million households prepare food in this way, an increase of 27 percent or three million homes between 2016 and 2018. In the Southeast fo Brazil, growth was 60 percent.
Meanwhile, Petrobras maintains a more expensive price for cooking gas than the one practiced internally since 2018 to recover losses that the company has had in recent years. It is a monopoly that harms the Brazilian people for the benefit of foreign and Brazilian investors.
Unfortunately, this pricing policy of Petrobras is driving the poorest classes in Brazil to return to using firewood to make food. A return to the Middle Ages. It is a country where the "modernity" of the "market prices" practiced by Petrobras forces the use of firewood and coal.
In Brazil, the readjustments in the price of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) practiced by Petrobras are quarterly and consider international price averages and the exchange rate in previous quarters. It is this policy that led thousands of Brazilians to cook between soot and smoke.
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