Gas stations in Hungary were raided due to fake news
The report recalled what the Minister in charge of the Prime Ministership Gergely Gulyás said on the Government Information the other day, according to which “now there are really worrying news” regarding the domestic fuel supply and the government will make a firm decision from Mol on whether it can guarantee the country’s supply.
As Gulyás said at the briefing about the sustainability of the official price of 480:
If Mol can do that, you don’t need Mol. That if there is a state that includes the highest sanctions on December 5th, that there is not enough gasoline and diesel, then you have to
– He told.
The EU’s Russian crude oil import, which came into effect on December 5, was decided by the EU back in June, from which Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were exempted due to the supply via the Friendship pipeline, but the official official decision was made today on the Russian oil price cap of $60, which because of this, the Russians once again threatened to stop deliveries to those who decided to do so. We wrote about all of this in detail in this article.
Due to Russian threats, Hungarian oil shipments through the Friendship Pipeline may also be at risk. it is true that an October decision would allow the three countries to import Russian oil by sea, so Hungary would receive Russian oil from the Adriatic pipeline. However, this could also mean security of supply risks, because the pipeline’s capacity is smaller than that of Barátság and the country’s annual oil consumption.
In the report, the announcement of the Ministry of Agriculture is cited, which warns that if the additional sanction comes into effect on February 5 (MOL cannot send diesel and gasoline back and forth between its refineries in Száhahalombatta and Bratislava), it could make the situation even more difficult.
With the televised questions, Molt also asked about the current security of supply situation in Hungary, only emphasizing that their tanker cars are constantly available, all their colleagues are working to supply the country, and the logistics capacity is at its peak.
At the end of the report, the words of the energy expert Attila Holoda were cited, who drew attention to the important risk of a new sanction from February 5, namely that the diesel output in Mol’s Százhalombatta refinery had been better so far, so the company also partially supplied Slovakia, while in the Bratislava refinery rather, the export of gasoline was better, and that is why they also helped me with the domestic gasoline supply, but this back-and-forth trade will no longer be possible from February 5 due to the new sanction, and this may further worsen the security of domestic supply. Therefore, he argues that the official price cap of 480 should have already been introduced in order to start market-based wholesale fuel imports into the country.
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