Petrol price rise likely to hit the pumps next week

Next week, the price of petrol is expected to rise from zl. 0.04 to zl. 0.05 per liter on average, which will the largest increase in price so far this year. Urszula Cieslak from Reflex claims that this will be the reaction of Polish fuel producers to the considerable increase of prices on the international fuel market. At the beginning of last week, the price of unleaded petrol oscillated around $327 per ton and of petroleum around $289, whereas on Friday the prices reached $345 and $313 respectively. As a consequence, domestic producers had to introduce a price increase of around zl. 70 per 1,000 liters on the both fuels. (www.biznes.onet.pl) K.Z.