In addition to criticizing states for charging ICMS on fuel, President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in 2022 directed attacks on Petrobras and on the state-owned company’s pricing policy. And, on several occasions, the president defended the privatization of the company as a way out to lower fuel prices.
This Friday (17), Petrobras announced readjustments of 5.2% in the price of gasoline and 14.2% in the price of diesel, claiming that the oil market has undergone structural change and that it is necessary to seek convergence with the international prices.
After 99 days without increases, the average price of gasoline at the state-owned refineries will rise from R$3.86 to R$4.06 per liter. The price of diesel will go from R$ 4.91 to R$ 5.61 per liter. The last adjustment occurred 39 days ago.
Remember, below, a selection of phrases said by Bolsonaro in 2022 about fuels.
The privatization of Petrobras is very difficult. If everything went right, it would take about four years. And you have to modulate it there, it’s not just whoever pays the most will take it. One day you have a state monopoly here, there was going to be another private monopoly out there
The whole world has been suffering consequences, including inflation, especially in food and fuel. This is not something that only happens in Brazil, but we count on the population, on its resilience, on its faith and its strength
It’s a black box many times, you don’t have information. The PPI thing, we want to know the mechanics of it
It is a crime to charge one real ICMS per liter of diesel oil. As I warned last month, Petrobras could break Brazil with this
Always that easy speech, save, help, gasoline will go back to R$ 3. All over the world it’s R$ 12, only here will it go back to R$ 3
Nobody is going to set fuel prices or intervene in Petrobras. What I think Petrobras could do, there is a constitutional article that talks about Petrobras’ social purpose. It is not being taken into account. International parity only exists in Brazil
I hope, in the next few days, with the changes I made in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, that we will be able to deal with Petrobras, make it comply with the constitutional provision, which speaks of the social purpose of the company
Petrobras, do not raise the price of fuel any more. Your profit is rape, it’s absurd. You can’t raise the price of fuel anymore
And the question of energy too: oil, gasoline. One of those that least increased in price was Brazil
I have my criticisms of Petrobras as well. Not what I would like, no. Whatever I can do, I don’t command Petrobras, I have no interference over it, whatever we can do, we do it
Petrobras demonstrates that it is not sensitive to the population. It’s Petrobras Futebol Clube and the rest blows up
all over the world has increased [preço dos combustÃveis]. I don’t set a price at Petrobras. I don’t decide anything, no. Only when there’s a problem does it fall into my lap
The states are profiting a lot from the ICMS on fuels
I guarantee you, if the PEC passes, in the second after enactment, I will zero the federal tax on Diesel in Brazil. I don’t want to fight the governor. I want to give him the chance to reduce the ICMS if he thinks he can reduce it
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