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Procon guides research on fuel prices

11/23/2016

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Procon guides you to search prices

Campaign "Researched, downloaded!" Aims to encourage consumers to activate competition between the stations - LUIZ SETTI / ARCHIVO JCS

Even with two announcements of fuel price reductions sold to distributors by Petrobras in less than a month, the consumer in Sorocaba and Votorantim has not yet seen this difference in the pump; On the contrary, it is paying ten cents more for the liter of gasoline. At the end of October, the maximum price, for example, was R $ 3.49, now it's R $ 3.59. That is, to supply a 45-liter tank, the person paid R $ 157.05, but since last week he has been paying R $ 161.55, equivalent to R $ 4.5 more. Because of this, the Brazilian Association of Procons (ProconsBrasil) and Procons of the whole country launch, this Friday, the campaign "researched, downloaded!".

The campaign aims to raise awareness and stimulate Brazilian consumers about the importance of price research, as a way of adapting the fuel consumption market in Brazil. By means of price research and choosing from suppliers that respect customers, by setting the final selling prices in a transparent way, the consumer has at his disposal the most powerful instrument of regulation that exists in a market driven by free initiative: demand.

Although prices are free, it is the duty of the consumer protection agencies to ensure the correct harmony in consumer relations, avoiding that there is consumer distrust on the possible non-passing of the reductions announced by the state oil company in Brazil.

Enable competition

According to the head of the Consumer Protection Division of Procon de Sorocaba, José Antonio de Oliveira Júnior, the conscious and collective movement of consumers can positively alter the market, giving the fuel segment the long-awaited competition that reflects on improved service and consumer prices. "The idea is that the consumer research and choose to supply the tank of his vehicle in that station that did not practice the increases," Júnior said.

In case of doubts or complaints, the consumer can contact one of the service channels of Procon Sorocaba: 0800-148029 or 151, or via the Internet - www.consumidor.gov.br -, or in person: Central Unit , Nogueira Martins Street, 513, Center, Monday through Friday, from 8 am to 3 pm; And in the Houses of the Citizen, from Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. - av. Cel. Nogueira Padilha, 1.460, Vila Hortência; Av. Ipanema, 3.349, Vila Helena; Av. Itavuvu, 3.415, Jardim Santa Cecilia; And Campolim Unit, in av. Antônio Carlos Comitre, 295, Campolim.

 

Source: Cruzeiro Newspaper

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