Cartels and dirty profits on fuel

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The scandal of fuel prices in Cyprus unfortunately continues with the result that Cypriot consumers pay 25-30 cents more expensive fuel compared to other European countries, such as Spain, said the President of the Pancyprian Consumers and Quality of Life Association, Loukas Aristodimou, while talking about "mockery and devaluation of our intelligence".

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According to the data available to the Union, in Spain the price of diesel was 0,96 cents per liter while on the same day in Cyprus it was 1,25 cents, the price of 95 octane gasoline in Spain was 1,19 cents. , 1,29 cents per liter and in Cyprus at 98 cents per liter and 1,20 octane gasoline in Spain amounted to 1,37 cents per liter while in Cyprus at XNUMX cents.

Mr. Aristodimou said that the Union sent this information to the competent Minister last week "without receiving any response so far".

The president of the Pancyprian Union of Consumers and Quality of Life reiterated the existence of fuel cartels in Cyprus, while expressing his dissatisfaction with the fact, as he said, that no substantial measures were taken to address the scandal and exploitation of consumers.

Mr. Aristodimou said that the Minister should have imposed a ceiling on fuel prices and wondered why in Cyprus we should pay 25-30 cents more expensive fuel?

He also complained to a group of gas station owners that they close their gas stations on weekends and for two weeks during the summer holidays without first taking care to reduce their prices, when required, so that consumers buy fuel at higher prices using them. financiers located at gas stations, paying in cash or by card.

Mr. Aristodimou finally called on the competent Minister "to finally deal with the very problem that is the formula of price formation in order to deal effectively with the unacceptable situation, as he characterized it".

Source: KYPE