Private and foreign gas station price promotions

As domestic demand for refined oil products has not been significantly improved, coupled with the substantial reduction in speculative buying by middlemen after the formation of a new pricing mechanism for refined oil products, the inventory volume accumulated by refineries has increased the price difference between the wholesale price of oil products and the government retail guide price. The bigger. The reporter visited the market and found that this caused different reactions in different types of retail terminal gas stations. Private and foreign gas stations were significantly more aggressive than state-owned gas stations in price reduction promotions.

The reporter learned that many gas stations have started to reduce prices or to disguise the price cuts, for example, some gas stations take fuel to send drinks. According to statistics, these price reductions or disguised price reductions are mostly private and foreign gas stations. For example, with 92 gasoline, the discount ranged from 0.3 yuan to 0.8 yuan per liter. Compared with the government retail guide price of 7 blocks of 5 hairs per liter, there were 8 prices in the gas stations with the highest discount in the top 10. Entered the "6-year era."

At the same time, the reporter saw from the relevant website data that among the more than 1,200 gas stations in Beijing, 181 were being discounted, of which 33% were discounted by foreign gas stations, and 21% were discounted by private gas stations. The proportion of these companies is more than half. It can be seen that private gas stations and foreign gas stations are significantly more willing to discount than state-owned gas stations.

Why face the same profit margins, private and foreign gas stations than the state-owned gas stations in the promotion of discounts more positive? Experts have analyzed this and PetroChina and Sinopec have already formed their own big share, because they themselves already occupy a large market, so discounting and promoting such market competition is not a means for them to survive.

This phenomenon has also attracted the attention of the industry. Experts of this matter said that decentralizing pricing prices of refined oil to enterprises is a key step in the reform of refined oil products in China. After the reform of refined oil pricing mechanism, the ultimate goal of reform is to achieve domestic The complete marketization of refined oil industry.