Utility rates and fuel prices increased again starting in April.
On this occasion, there will be an increase in the price gas combined with the adjustment of natural gas transportation and distribution tariffs by network throughout the national territory
The increase of fuel taxes After Easter it will have an impact of between 3% and 4% on gasoline and diesel prices nationwide, with the exception of Patagonia, which is exempt from these taxes for resource production.
In electric energythe Government has decided to moderate the adjustments to the Edenor and Edesur tariffs in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and to distribute the update among a greater number of homes.
The rates of public transport -trains and buses- in AMBA will remain frozen for those who have registered the SUBE card, instead of the expected increase of 36.6%.
And the waterfall It could rise 209% in the fourth month of the year, although the complex technical engineering to process the AySA public hearing has the industry thinking the upgrade will last until May.
Gas: who loses subsidies and how much the increase is
As regards gas, the Government made official this Wednesday the new prices at the entry point of the transport system (PIST), wholesale or at the “wellhead”, which reflect the average cost of supply between local production and imports.
AS, It left families in the Level 1 (N1) segmentation without subsidies, with high incomes or assets, and those who did not apply for or renounced state aid.. Treasury transfers will also be eliminated to all non-domestic users, such as businesses and industriesclassified as “General Service (P)”.
According to oil unions gathered in the Argentine Confederation of Workers and Employees of Hydrocarbons, Energy, Fuels, Derivatives and Related Products (CATHEDA), N1 families will have a gas price increase of 179% in April , by $33.09 to $92.33 per minute. cubic meter -m3- if they are located in Buenos Aires. For non-residential users the upgrade is 612% (multiplied by 7), from $12.97 to $92.33/m3.
And N2, low-income families, will see a 154% jump, from $9.68 to $24.60.
In Patagonia, the price of gas will increase by 1045% (11 times), from $8.17 to $93.60 per m3 for non-domestic users.
The price of wholesale gas will also be dualizedas has already happened since 2016, but indexed to the exchange rate, a novelty. First it liquefied as the devaluation of the peso against the dollar progressed.
And it is good to clarify that the price of gas in the PIST is only a part of the bill that reaches users, which has other components such as transportation, distribution and tax rates.
Between this long weekend and Wednesday 3 April, the Government aims to formalize the tariffs of each of the transporters and distributors, so only then will it be possible to precisely measure the effect of these increases on the invoices of each type of user.
“We are going to flat rate, which means that the gas increase in winter will be lower in relative terms. The idea is that this is a temporary scheme while we test the basic energy basket for a couple of months,” he said Clarion an official source.
In opposition, however, they are more vehement. “Conforming is criminal. Next to this, Mauricio Macri is the king of social justice”, they joked on Peronismo.
Source: Clarin
