Lula recommends rigorous gasoline price checks

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said at Monday's meeting with Brazil's sugar/ethanol sector that consumer protection bodies should rigorously check that gasoline prices fall at the pumps from June 1. On that date, the anhydrous alcohol mixture in gasoline will rise to 25% from 20%. "If we increase the admixture to 25% from 20% we need to be able to carry out checks and CADE (the Justice Ministry Antitrust Division) will have to know why the decrease isn't reaching the consumer," he said. "There's no point in having a lower ethanol price if further along the chain of production you've got crooks thinking they can cheat other people," said Lula. by Leonencio Nossa