The online conference "oil products: How does the internal market?", which held information group Finam. en (part of the Finam investment holding), has once again confirmed that the internal oil products market is scarcity. With the increasing tax burden, lack of competition and the low efficiency of the domestic oil refineries fuel prices just doomed to growth, experts believe. The Government received a proposal to regulate the market of gasoline and diesel fuel in 2008, but a series of measures to change the taxation does not pass through the Finance Ministry, said a leading expert of the Russian Union of oil and gas, General Director of "InfoTÈK-Terminal" Rustam Tankaev: "If the proposals were accepted, there would be no shortage of gasoline, and the price of gasoline to the public would be at 20% -25% lower. Deputy CEO of the algorithm. Fuel Integrator» Victor Kostyukov believes that gasoline shortages due to the low efficiency of domestic oil refineries and high growth of the Russian fleet-demand increasingly outstrips supply. Leading expert UK «Finam management» Dmitry Baranov convinced that only competition can change your current situation: If a consumer real choice, where to refuel at GAS STATIONS or on an independent PETROL STATION OPERATION, if the oil companies and oil refineries will depend on how many people will come to them and how much money will leave, then they will offer the best prices and the best service possible, otherwise they will not survive. " In the meantime, the situation is such that on the brink of extinction, there are independent petrol station. Recently, the head of the FEDERAL ANTIMONOPOLY SERVICE Igor Artemyev explained why in Russia the expensive petrol. In his view, two main reasons — world market conditions and high taxes.