The world was warned of a serious threat due to high diesel prices
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- Rising diesel prices in key agricultural regions of the world threaten a new wave of food inflation.
- Farmers face sharp increases in costs during the harvest period, forcing authorities to look for ways to stabilize the market.
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Why It Matters
The rise in diesel prices coincided with the peak agricultural season in various regions of the world.
In a number of countries, the rate of growth in food prices may accelerate due to the high cost of diesel fuel. Bloomberg reports this.
The sharp rise in prices for diesel fuel, the material notes, coincided with the period of peak demand for fuel by farmers. As a result, costs for farmers in key agricultural regions of the world (from South America and Australia to Europe and the USA) began to increase rapidly.
This creates the threat of a new wave of food inflation, experts warned. One of the most difficult situations with fuel availability is currently being recorded in Australia. Local farmers are forced to work in conditions where the cost of fuel exceeds last year's figures by more than 50 percent. A rapid rise in fuel prices occurred during the beginning of the harvest (wheat, barley and rapeseed).
Things are not much better in the United States, where, against the backdrop of rising fuel prices, local authorities are thinking about banning the export of diesel fuel. In European countries, prices for the key fuel also rose. In order to normalize the crisis situation, representatives of the G7 countries announced plans to release up to 100 million barrels of oil and petroleum products from their strategic reserves.
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Open Questions
- Will there be a ban on diesel fuel exports to the US?
- How effective will the release of oil from G7 reserves be?
