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02/12/2013
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The 4% increase in the price of gasoline at refineries , announced last Friday ( 29 ) , Petrobras , is insufficient to make ethanol competitive in most Brazilian states .
If fuel prices rise at the same rate at the pump , it will still be more advantageous for the driver fuel with gasoline than ethanol in 20 states and the Federal District , says survey by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paul , based on data from the ANP ( National Petroleum Agency ) .
Today fuel with ethanol is advantageous only in four Brazilian states - São Paulo , Goiás , Mato Grosso and Paraná - , according to ANP data indicate that the average prices of ethanol and gasoline at gas stations in the last week .
The bill considers that fuel with ethanol is only worthwhile when the value of the fuel cost less than 70 % of the price charged for gas, because the car spends more liters of ethanol to go the same distance than the volume of gasoline used .
Analysts point " lack of transparency " in methodology Petrobras
Taking a simple average of the prices charged by the two fuels in all States last week , the adjustment of gasoline to make ethanol competitive in the country would be 13.12% at the pump .
The state where ethanol is at a major disadvantage compared to gasoline is Roraima . There the average cost per gallon is $ 2.74 compared to R $ 3.00 per liter of petrol . Only worth doing with ethanol fuel is gasoline in the state rose 30 % .
You Piauí necessary adjustment in gasoline to motivate consumers to fuel with ethanol would be 27.76 % and in Amapá and Sergipe , 25 % and 24 % , respectively , indicates the lifting of the state.
States where there is a greater possibility that the adjustment of gasoline make a car owner to replace the flex fuel , today more advantageous for ethanol are Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso do Sul in these countries , just an increase of approximately 1.3 % the price of gasoline for ethanol to be more competitive , according to calculations of the state.
subsidy
The mill owners attributed the loss of competitiveness of ethanol to gasoline subsidy by Petrobras in Brazil selling fuel below international prices .
The difference between the amount paid to import gasoline and the amount received for selling the fuel in Brazil by Petrobras itself out of the box and led to an erosion of the financial outcome of State . The practice is part of a government attempt to curb inflation .
Like most of the Brazilian fleet is flex , the subsidy on petrol has direct impact on the demand for ethanol . The industry has for years without investing in new plants and about 10 % of the 400 existing units are stalled , according to Unica ( the Cane Sugar Industry ) .
To Unica , the adjustment of 4 % in gasoline , announced on Friday , " could mean a slight improvement in timely and competitiveness of ethanol ."
The organization , however , said in a statement that the increase of 8 % in diesel , also announced on Friday , " eliminates any potential benefit for ethanol that increased gasoline could produce ."
Diesel is one of the most important for the production of ethanol inputs , since the harvest and activity in mechanized processes and plants are fueled with diesel . The information is the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo .
Source : R7
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