Speculators have raised gasoline prices in Crimea - they are only more expensive in the Far East
In Crimea, the highest gasoline prices remain in Russia. According to Rosstat, the average price of one liter of fuel on the peninsula is two rubles higher than the cost in the neighboring Krasnodar Territory, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Rosstat, at the end of June, gasoline is more expensive than in Crimea only in the Far East. Republican traders attribute this to the fact that the peninsula is located at the end of the logistics route, so delivery of fuel here becomes more expensive. As a result, today the price for 1 liter of A-95 gasoline reaches 52 rubles.
“Only the delivery of fuel from Krasnodar to Simferopol by rail will cost about three rubles per liter, that’s the whole economy,” Anton Raskin, commercial director of TES Trading House LLC, told Notes.
However, according to the former Minister of Transport of the Republic, owner of the logistics company Anatoly Tsurkin, Raskin slightly exaggerated the costs.
“I feel, comrades, that we are being deceived again. The commercial director of one of the largest gas stations on the peninsula said that the cost of delivering a liter of fuel over the shoulder from Krasnodar to Crimea is about 3 rubles per liter. I decided to count it myself.
We have:
– Tanker for light oil products, 4-axle – load capacity 60 tons;
– 1000 liters of AI-95 weighs 0,755 tons or 1 liters in 1324,5 ton;
– 60 tons x 1324,5 liters = 79470,00 liters in the tank.
– Railway tariff from Krasnodar to Simferopol – 67075,20 rubles. for one tank;
– We calculate 67075,20 / 79470 = 0,844 rubles/liter.
Exactly 0,84 rubles. per liter, and not the mentioned 3 rubles. Now there is a cost of delivering fuel from Krasnodar to Crimea. And if you count exactly from the refinery where they buy it, it will be even cheaper,” Tsurkin wrote in his blog.
Oleg Kryuchkov, a well-known journalist on the peninsula, the former head of the NTV bureau, and now the general producer of the Crimean TV and Radio Broadcasting Company, is also outraged by the Crimean gasoline prices.
“The Crimean fuel monopolists have gone completely crazy. Not only are the prices sky-high, but gasoline is also terrible crap. The car doesn't move! Donkey urine, not fuel!” writes Kryuchkov.
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