Valentin Zlatev: There is no price cartel for Bulgaria – Bulgaria

Fuel prices can fall further. The forecast is for the Bulgarian Association of Oil and Gas (BPGA), announced NOVA. For the first time since the start of the event, his boss, Valentin Zlatev, commented on the sharp drop in gasoline and diesel in recent weeks.

"The fuel has recently fallen, not because of the protests of the population, but because of the fall of oil on the stock markets",

said Valentin Zlatev, chairman of BPGA at a meeting of the Bulgarian Association of Oil and Gas in Stara Zagora. "I am surprised that there were no demonstrations three months ago when we started to raise fuel prices and now that prices are falling," Zlatev said, quoted by BTA. .

"It was neither logical nor useful to conclude an agreement between the companies on fuel prices.We work in a very competitive market with raw materials at a stock price and the costs of production and transportation of fuels are almost the same. same, "said Zlatev.

He also said: "A year ago, the Commission for the Protection of Competition had investigated the fact that fuel prices at service stations were the same, and that's why now prices are different Oil is traded at international prices, fuel technology is also practically the same.

Prices depend on the efficiency of refineries.

A Dutch refinery, like Burgas, employs 250 people. Three thousand people are employed in ours, but we have never allowed ourselves to reduce the number of people. "

According to Zlatev, it was unclear how everything could be written on a receipt without breaking the law, as the government wants. "Technically, I do not know how that will happen if the regulation is to be implemented to introduce new software – yes, it will make the fuel more expensive," Zlatev said.

Ferdinand Terziev, owner of a member company of BPGA, said: "If the biofuel is abandoned in the winter, we can expect a drop of 2 cents per liter of gasoline A and 5 cents of diesel fuel ".

"Biodiesel acids can, however, cause big problems for your car's engines because it's hard to control biodiesel at temperatures below five degrees," said Terziev. "If biocomponents are not used in winter, then, according to EU guidelines, they have to increase in the summer, as the country and the traders will be fined," Terziev said.

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