It is difficult to forecast the price of gas for Moldova for April, when gas and oil products keep rising sharply on international exchanges against the background of the war in Ukraine, but the overall situation is not good - Andrei Spinu.
According to Vice Prime Minister, only after March 20 will it be possible to make any definite assumptions, but it is unlikely that the gas purchase price for Moldova will be lower in April than this month. "Citizens must understand that we have an unprecedented situation for the last decades, a war in neighboring Ukraine, and nobody can say yet how it will affect us, how much the prices of gas and petroleum products, the quotations of which are also important for calculating the price of gas, will grow, how much the supply chain of petroleum products will change," Andrei Spinu said. He explained that, for example, formerly 30% of oil was imported from the East, while now these chains are broken. Logistics chains were going through the Black Sea, but now they are not, because there are risks, and everything is in constant change in this crisis period, with an extremely high degree of uncertainty. "This week the price of gas was $3800 per 1,000 cubic meters one day, and on the same day it went down to $2900. Everything changes drastically even within a single day. These signals tell us that we should be careful, save money, because that is the situation. We have to understand the situation we are in and behave accordingly. We cannot make predictions about gasoline and diesel prices, but the situation is not good. We see the price rising every day, and we can't change anything because we have no gas or petroleum products of our own. Our task is to make decisions in order to prevent abuses on the market," Vice Premier stressed. // 09.03.2022 - InfoMarket
