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What Flavio Bolsonaro said about facilitate import of petroleum derivatives to increase competition

Flavio Bolsonaro

Flavio Bolsonaro

May 9, 2026

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Flavio Bolsonaro: You combined taxes and created new ones.

Flavio Bolsonaro: A government that at every moment tries to control and interfere in private initiative, trying to regulate by decree, creating new taxes, you see what it just did to try to contain some fuel prices.

Instead of increasing competition, instead of facilitating the import of petroleum derivatives, as I said, gasoline, since we only produce here about 80% of what we consume.

Flavio Bolsonaro · 5:29

Flavio Bolsonaro: I am, yes, suffering the impact of fluctuations in the price of oil abroad.

Flavio Bolsonaro: He creates, Jorge, an export tax to try to hold fuel prices here.

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proposes easing imports as an alternative to the government's measures.

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