Prague Tank Ono’s gas station drivers have perhaps never experienced such a large decline in refueling drivers. The once usual long queues at the cheapest network in our country have often been reduced to a minimum. Sales of 44 Ono stations have halved in recent days compared to the pre-Covenant period. And other pumps all over the Czech Republic are not much better.
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Tighter government action against the spread of coronavirus, including the closure of district boundaries for population movements, as well as increasing reports of a critical situation and an increase in infections, are leading more and more drivers to leave their cars at home.
Oil is becoming more expensive
In addition, another factor is added to the declining consumption – oil and with it fuel for drivers are visibly more expensive. Gasoline in the last seven days by almost 50, diesel by 40 pennies. Natural 95 is now refueled for an average of 29.6 crowns, diesel for 28.3 crowns. And price growth will continue.
However, due to strong competition and depopulated pumps, pumpers cannot fully reflect their higher purchase prices in final prices, thus reducing not only sales but also margins from each liter sold.
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“Compared to February 2020, half of sales are now gone. This is true for petrol, but even in the case of diesel, it will not be far from a half-drop. People are scared. In our country, the situation is worse now than last spring, “Jiří Ondra, co-owner of the Tank Ono petrol network, told Lidovky.cz on Friday.
At the beginning of the first wave of the pandemic, the situation with a decrease in refueling was similar, but then, on the contrary, oil and wholesale prices fell, so that pump operators could at least partially replace the drop in consumption with a higher margin. They don’t have this advantage now.
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For the whole of last year, according to the latest data from the Czech Statistical Office (CSO), gasoline consumption fell by 11 percent year on year to 1.91 billion liters, diesel (due to tank refueling) “only” by four percent to 5.7 billion liters.
However, for example, last April alone, the drop in gasoline sales for the whole of the Czechia was a staggering 33 percent. The rest of the year, not even a plus three summer months, he couldn’t replace.
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“Although there has been a significant reduction in fuel prices in the range of four to six crowns per liter since mid-January, this positive price factor was completely eliminated by another serious factor, namely the emergency situation and, as a result, a decline in economic performance,” comments last year. numbers expert Czech Association of Petroleum Industry and Trade (ČAPPO) Václav Loula.
And this year, as it turns out, will probably not be any better. “Unfortunately, given the current epidemic situation, the state of emergency and the restrictions on mobility, I expect that in the sale of gasoline in January and February this year, compared to comparable months of the non-period period of 2019, there will be a decrease of 15 to 20 percent. Ten to twelve percent for diesel, “adds Loula.
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March will probably be similar to last year’s. Gasoline sales will fall by as much as 30 percent for the whole of the Czechia. All pumpers have a problem.
“Restrictions on movement, threat of infection, full hospitals, challenges: stay home. All this affects the driver. And as a result, the gas station business, including the smallest retailers, ”confirms Ivan Indráček, head of the Gas Station Community, which brings together small independent retailers and distributors.
At the pump instead of the store
“Since the beginning of March, after the tightening of anti-epidemic measures, we have seen a decrease in drivers compared to January and February. The lower mobility of the population is also evidenced by the decline in the volume of fuel sales, “responds Michal Procházka, a spokesman for Unipetrol, which includes the largest Czech Benzina network.
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In recent days, compared to the beginning of March last year, Benzina reported ten percent lower sales.
“On the contrary, we are currently recording an almost one-fifth increase in sales in the non-fuel segment. As in the previous year, this confirms that our Benzina Orlen filling stations with a wide range of additional sales function as alternative places to buy goods, ”says a spokesman for Unipetrol.
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