The weekly report from the Energy Services Regulatory Authority (ERSE), revealed this Monday, states that the average prices of gasoline and diesel recorded a decrease of 0.2% last week, for gasoline 95 and 0.3% for diesel.
According to the ERSE document, the efficient price has been updated, “taking into account the weekly variation of international quotations for gasoline 95 at -2.5% and for diesel at -2.4% respectively.”
Thus, for the week of July 29th to August 4th, “the Preço Eficiente before taxes is €0.831 per liter for gasoline 95 and €0.839 for diesel. After taxes, the Preço Eficiente is €1.733 per liter for gasoline 95 and €1.577 for diesel.”
The ERSE reminds that the efficient price “is a weekly average price estimated by the ERSE and results from the sum of the following components: fuel prices in international reference markets and their maritime freights, primary logistics, including strategic and security reserves of the National Petroleum System, additional costs for the incorporation of biofuels, and the retail component increased by the respective taxes.”
Regarding the previous week, the report states that “it was found that the average of the Public Sale Prices announced on the billboards, and reported in the Single Energy Counter, was 3.5 cents per liter higher than the Efficient Price, for that week, in the case of regular gasoline 95, and 5.4 cents higher in the case of regular diesel.”
In percentage terms, “regular gasoline 95 was announced on the billboards 2% above the Efficient Price and regular diesel was announced 3.3% above,” according to the ERSE report.