{"id":265404,"date":"2020-01-06T14:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=265404"},"modified":"2020-01-06T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T18:39:06","slug":"bolsonaro-sees-a-tendency-towards-stability-in-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/bolsonaro-sees-a-tendency-towards-stability-in-fuel-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro sees a tendency towards stability in fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 President Jair Bolsonaro said this Monday (6) that, although fuel pump prices are high, they tend to remain stable. But he ruled out again any chance of tabulating prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI admit that prices are high. Apparently, the US-Iraq issue didn\u2019t impact that much. From 5%, it dropped to 3.5%, I don\u2019t know how much of that is actually related to the day of the strike, but the tendency is to stabilize,\u201d said the president while leaving Pal\u00e1cio da Alvorada, referring to the American bombing on Baghdad International Airport that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleiman <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/us-strike-impacts-fuel-prices-bolsonaro\/\">last Friday<\/a> (3).<\/p>\n<p>This Monday, a little bit after 2 pm (Bras\u00edlia time), the oil barrel price stood at USD 63.18 in New York, up 0.21% from last Friday, and USD 68.94 in London, up 0.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro reported this will be the topic of a meeting he will take part in at the Ministry of Mines and Energy later this day at 4 pm. The president ruled out again any tabulating policy, a strategy that has already been adopted in Brazil and he believes was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>According to the president, fuel pump prices are three times higher than refiner prices. \u201cThis is outrageous. There are lots of people making money while risking nothing. They\u2019re decades-old monopolies, taking advantage of the law. We\u2019ll open up wherever we can. There should be as much competition as possible to break the monopoly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>*With information from the ANBA newsroom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-265402\">Jos\u00e9 Cruz\/Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian president said that, although prices are high, they tend to remain stable, despite the US strike in Iraq last Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":265402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[12312,11346,7271,9576,11959,2810,591,27310,1964,11961,2166,2826],"class_list":{"0":"post-265404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bolsonaro-en-2","9":"tag-bolsonaro-en","10":"tag-fuels","11":"tag-gas-en","12":"tag-gas-ar","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-iraq","15":"tag-iraque-en","16":"tag-oil","17":"tag-petroleo-ar","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-us"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazilian president said that, although prices are high, they tend to remain stable, despite the US strike in Iraq last Friday.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}