After another increase in the prices of oil, Petrobras decided to increase the prices of gasoline anda diesel. Since Michel Temer's government, Petrobras has adopted a pricing policy that links readjustments in the country to the price of a barrel of oil abroad. This has led the country to suffer greatly from the rise in oil prices and the volatility of the international oil market.
Today the price of diesel rose 24.9% and the price of gasoline rose 18.7%.
To make this situation worse, according to the candidate for the presidency of Brazil, Ciro Gomes, “Petrobras is making a profit of 38% by despoiling the Brazilian people and, worse, distributed 101 billion reais in profit to minority shareholders, which are bankers in Brazil and abroad."
Despite criticizing this policy, Bolsonaro has not changed Petrobras' pricing policy during his government (in the last days, oil prices have been rising as tensions in Ukraine mount).
According to journalist Mônica Bergamo, "one of the main leaders of the 2018 truck drivers' strike, Wanderlei Alves, aka Dedeco, says that Brazil has to stop in protest against the fuel increase announced this Thursday (10) by Petrobras - from 18, 8% for gasoline, 16.1% for cooking gas and 24.9% for diesel in refineries".
