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16/08/2013
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Edith Figueiredo has a habit of fueling with ethanol
Ethanol is already more profitable than gasoline in some neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro. Among the 13 gas stations visited by EXTRA - in the north and center - far more worthwhile fuel with ethanol in one of them and was equivalent in the other two. In the other, the price of gasoline still pays off, because the fuel yields more.
For the president of the Union of Retail Fuels and Lubricants and Convenience Stores in Rio de Janeiro, Manuel Fonseca da Costa, the drop in ethanol prices is merely a matter of logistics posts:
- Not to be stopped with the product, deteriorating, lowering the price.
President of the National Federation of Retail Fuels and Lubricants (Fecombustíveis), Paulo Miranda believes that ethanol prices live a slow, but will not reduce more:
- The refineries are already working with the minimum price. In practice, the ethanol is cheap. The problem is that gasoline is too.
According to Miranda, if the government grant an adjustment of gasoline - which has been requested by Petrobras - ethanol again worthwhile.
César Guimarães, director of the National Association of Distributors of Fuels and Lubricants (Sindicom), explains the change:
- We are in the harvest of cane sugar. Therefore, the fuel becomes more competitive.
On April 23, the federal government announced a tax exemption on ethanol, to encourage farmers to invest and increase production.
- The exemption has not come fully to the pumps. The refineries have done their part. Now, the distributors have to pass on the reduction to the posts - says Miranda.
According to the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) in April of this year the average price of ethanol in the state was R$ 2.328. August is the average of R $ 2.253, down 3.2%.
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Source: Extra - online
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