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What Edi Rama doesn't say about the price of oil

2026-04-01 17:43:04Biznes SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

What Edi Rama doesn't say about the price of oil

Edi Rama gathered the Socialist Party structures in Unit 4 in Tirana, where he also unveiled a series of justifications for the stratospheric price of oil in Albania.

He mentioned the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, smuggling, transit oil, chemical markers, new dyes, and companies from the United Arab Emirates, but he didn't say a word about the main reason why oil in Albania is so expensive, the high taxes that the government itself has imposed on every liter of fuel.

In his speech, Rama said that the government is preparing to enter the oil market with a public company, claiming that this will guarantee that citizens do not pay more than they should and that reserves will be secure.

According to him, the formalization of the market and the fight against smuggling will be aided by a new fuel tracking system, developed in collaboration with a state-owned company from the Emirates.

"Today we have a problem with oil that has been hit in price by the crisis, but which is a problem even beyond the crisis. That crisis caused in the Strait of Hormuz has increased prices everywhere, etc., but this finds us at a time when we had begun to enter the oil market with a public factor, a public company. And why? At that time there was no war. We will enter to guarantee that citizens, our fuel consumers, are not forced to pay more than they are entitled to. And to ensure that the reserve is.

We had an oil that was branded, a chemical component was added to it to identify what was entering legally, not contraband. We tried to fix it as much as we could. It was paint that was easily diluted or easily fabricated. Now with the public company that we have created, together with the same company that the state has in the United Arab Emirates, we will release in 1-2 months another dye that is unmanipulated and will help formalize the oil market because from the analyses we do, there is a quantity of oil outside the state's radar.

"The other thing that happens is transit oil, which enters here to go to other neighboring countries and part of it remains here illegally. For this too, we have a product with the same company to track all transit oil," Rama said.

In the end, there is a very simple fact that Rama does not mention: for every liter of oil in Albania, about 115 lek are taxes alone . This is the main reason why fuel here is much more expensive than in neighboring countries.

In Kosovo, North Macedonia or Montenegro, the fiscal burden on oil is significantly lower, almost half in some cases, and as a result the final price at the pump is significantly cheaper. Therefore, it is no coincidence that every time prices move, border points are filled with Albanians queuing to supply cars in Kosovo, Macedonia or Montenegro. Because the problem is not just the market, nor just the international crisis. The problem is that the Albanian state has burdened a liter of oil with so many taxes that citizens are forced to seek solutions abroad.


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