Kaluga region remains in the top three for diesel prices in the Central Federal District

The Ministry of Competition Policy of the Kaluga Region summed up the results of weekly monitoring on the state of fuel and food prices

Experts note that from September 16 to 24, changes in fuel prices affected two operators: the network of Gazprom Neft Network, AI-92 gasoline rose by 0.65% (by 40 kopecks), AI-95 - by 0.76% (by 50 kopecks).

“At the independent refueling of the Shaykhutdinov IP, which is not related to vertical integrated oil companies, the cost of the AI-95 increased by 5.27% (by 5 rubles),” the ministry said.

Now the Kaluga region is in third place in the Central Federal District for diesel prices (78.01 rubles / l) and sixth for AI-95 gasoline (79.94 rubles / l) and AI-98 (99.30 rubles / l). In the ninth region was at the prices of motor gasoline (78.93 rubles / l), including - AI-92 (75.04 rubles / l).

According to experts, the situation with fuel supplies remains quite tense, especially for independent operators with a small number of filling stations. On the latter, unreasonable price fluctuations or discrepancy of the sold fuel to the declared brand are possible.

“In the identified cases, the documents were sent to the FAS to check the transparency of pricing,” the ministry explained.

Experts recommended that the Kaluga authorities seriously monitor the update of data on the availability of fuel at the gas station on the geoinformation portal of the Kaluga region.

As for food, from 16 to 23 September, no significant changes in their price were recorded. The cost of boiled sausage, butter and cabbage decreased (from 0.17% to 2.3%). Grinded rice, chicken egg, chilled/ice cream, sour cream and margarine rose in price (+0.8–1.2%).

Minimum retail prices in comparison with other regions of the Central Federal District are registered for sunflower oil, kefir, sugar-sand, biscuits and buckwheat.

Earlier, “MK in Kaluga” wrote that in the Kaluga region increased control over fuel prices.