BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 2. Gasoline consumption in
the Czech Republic within the first quarter of 2023 has decreased to
the bottom degree since 2001, Pattern reviews.
Based on the press service of the Czech Power Regulatory
Workplace, this determine amounted to 2.52 million cubic meters, down by
14.4 p.c on an annual foundation.
The press service additionally mentioned that the amount of fuel saved in
state-owned underground services was 1.69 million cubic meters as
of the primary quarter of this yr, which is nearly 4 instances extra
than in the identical interval of 2022.
Czech companies and households began saving on fuel prices again
in 2021. The lower in fuel consumption amounted to a file 28.5
p.c in comparison with the symptoms of the primary quarter of the
pre-crisis 2021 and the primary quarter of this yr.
In 2022, complete fuel consumption within the Czech Republic was the
lowest in eight years. The nation used 7.5 billion cubic meters of
fuel, which is 20 p.c lower than in 2021.
As Czech media reported in April, within the first quarter of 2023,
the Czech Republic for the primary time utterly allotted with fuel
provides from Russia, changing it with Norwegian fuel and liquefied
fuel delivered by sea from terminals within the Netherlands and
Belgium.