Analyzed statement

What Flavio Bolsonaro said about reduce taxes levied on fuels

Flavio Bolsonaro

Flavio Bolsonaro

May 9, 2026

View profile →

For

About: reduce taxes levied on fuels

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

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

Flavio Bolsonaro · 5:47

Flavio Bolsonaro: And he goes down to the front line.

Flavio Bolsonaro: to the gas station to seal off the gas station, accusing them of practicing price gouging.

Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence

criticizes the creation of an export tax and its local effects.

Excerpt from a public video, transcribed and classified by AI. See the Methodology