‘One or another’ comes out to Tespi compared to last year this year’s exit for Easter in relation to two of the most basic expenses of anyone who chooses to leave for the countryside, ie gasoline and lamb.
And this is because what the Greek consumer earns Easter from cheapest gasoline loses it from the most expensive lamb.
Specifically, to fill a 50 -liter tank for 1.73 euros/liter today needs 86 euros, while last year at 1.90 he wanted 95 euros. So this year it has a profit of 9 euros.
However, in order to buy a 10kg lamb in the province’s butcher shop he will pay 150 euros and paid 140 euros last year.
But what is due to the drop in gas price and which increasing the price of the lamb?
Gasoline industry executives report that a decline in gasoline price is due to the giant decline in international oil prices due to fears of recession because of the duties war.
Of the $ 85, the barrel has fallen to $ 60. That is, there was a decline of 30%, although the consumer shows a decrease of 10%.
Conversely, the lamb by the producer leaves 10 to 10.5 euros per kilo to reach the neighborhood butcher in the province of 15 euros for 14 euros last year.
The rise in the price of the lamb, according to executives in the livestock and butcher industry is due to two main factors. One is the simultaneous Easter of Orthodox and Catholics, which led to increased lamb demand. The other is the reduction of animal capital due to the diseases that have affected lambs in the Balkans and above all in Romania, from where most imports in Greece come from.