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In the market, oil prices are only willing to chase high, while vegetable purchase prices are only willing to chase down, because whether it is a business or a small trader, the purpose of their market activities is to earn the difference in price and win profits. If the price of oil is higher when it is sold, it will be more profitable; When vegetables are purchased, the cost can be reduced a little. One high and one low reflects the whole process of buying and selling market activities.

The National Development and Reform Commission suddenly announced that from April 7, 2011, the price of gasoline and diesel will be raised by 500 yuan and 400 yuan per ton respectively, No. 90 gasoline will rise by about 0.37 yuan per liter, and No. 0 diesel will rise by 0.34 yuan. The relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission said that timely adjustment of domestic refined oil prices is conducive to curbing the excessive growth of oil consumption and promoting the transformation of economic development mode and resource conservation. Recently, affected by the turbulent situation in the Middle East and North Africa, especially Libya, oil prices in the international market have continued to rise sharply. In early March, U.S. West Texas crude oil and U.K. North Sea Brent crude futures reached $105 and $116 per barrel, respectively, the highest since the end of September 2008, and have continued to run at high levels above $100 and $110 per barrel since then. Most institutions predict that the impact of the political turmoil in Libya on the oil market will not be eliminated in the short term, and the demand for oil for Japan's post-disaster reconstruction and replacement of nuclear power may increase significantly, and oil prices in the international market will continue to run at a high level for a period of time in the future.

According to the U.S. Energy Administration (EIA), on February 21, 2011, the average price of gasoline in various states in the United States was US$3.189 per gallon, which is less than US$1 (6.6 yuan) per liter of gasoline. Why is this a problem?

On this issue, Zhou Dadi, deputy director of the National Energy Expert Advisory Committee, said at a press conference of the China Energy Research Society that China's oil prices are still low in the world, and Chinese people often like to compare domestic oil prices with the United States, but do not like to compare with Japan or European countries.

Zhou said that at present, the tax on gasoline prices in the United States accounts for about 13%, and the cost of crude oil is about 60%, but the tax level levied by European countries on gasoline is very high, and the tax contained in gasoline prices is generally as high as 40%-70%, which also makes the oil price level in European countries very high, and the price of gasoline in most countries exceeds 10 yuan per liter.

"The main reason why the United States was able to form such a consumption concept is that it controlled a lot of resources around the world in the early days, and such an approach is not feasible in other countries." Zhou Dadi said that from the perspective of refining costs, refining in the United States has already achieved large-scale production, so the cost is relatively low.

Some experts believe that the opacity of refining costs is the problem, and call for the disclosure of refining costs. "If this aspect of the problem can be explained more clearly, there may be a correct understanding of the price change."

Our oil prices are always high, but compared with the vegetables produced by farmers, their prices are only low and not high, and the vegetables that farmers have worked so hard to grow are difficult to sell. Here's a set of data:

According to the monitoring of Shandong Agricultural Information Center, from April 25 to May 1, 2011, the average wholesale price of vegetables in the province was 2.83 yuan/kg, down 2.24% from last week. This is the eighth consecutive week that vegetable prices in Shandong Province have fallen.

The reporter learned that from April 25 to May 1, among the 35 kinds of vegetables monitored by the Shandong Agricultural Information Center, 20 kinds of prices fell, 2 kinds of prices were flat, and 13 kinds of prices rose. Among them, the prices of leeks, cabbage, garlic, green onions, garlic sprouts, and shallots all fell by more than 10%, with the highest decline of 29%.

Among the vegetable varieties that have risen in price, coriander, cauliflower, potatoes, broccoli, shiitake mushrooms, beans, loofahs, and winter melons have risen significantly, with an increase of between 6% and 17%.

Compared with the same period last year, the prices of Chinese cabbage, cabbage and green onions fell by more than 50%, and the prices of celery, spinach, fennel, garlic sprouts, lettuce, zucchini, rape, lettuce, eggplant and cauliflower fell by more than 40%.

According to statistics, from February 28 to March 6, the average wholesale price of vegetables in Shandong Province was 413 yuan/kg, up 1.38% from the previous week, and from March 7 to 13, the average price of vegetables in Shandong Province was 4.07 yuan/kg, down 1.45% from last week, and began to enter a downward channel.

The price of vegetables grown by farmers has been pushed down again and again, resulting in good yields and no good harvests. In April 2011, Han Jin, a vegetable farmer in Jinan, committed suicide because he could not bear the drop in vegetable prices. This has greatly discouraged the peasants.

In order to protect the interests of vegetable farmers, some regions have begun to experiment. For example, Shanghai tried to launch the "cost price insurance of winter light green vegetables" last year, and took the lead in exploring the establishment of a cost price protection system for green leafy vegetables in China. Some experts also proposed that to weigh the relationship between anti-inflation and increasing farmers' income, macroeconomic regulation and control should focus on the implementation of the "two guarantees", that is, when the price of vegetables is low, the interests of vegetable farmers should be given priority; When the price of vegetables is high, the interests of low-income groups in the city are protected.

However, we have seen that vegetables are purchased at the lowest protective price, rather than at a high price, and the vegetables grown by farmers are far from being sold at the price sold in the market. In the market, oil prices are only willing to chase high, while vegetable purchase prices are only willing to chase down, because whether it is a business or a small trader, the purpose of their market activities is to earn the difference in price and win profits. If the price of oil is higher when it is sold, it will be more profitable; When vegetables are purchased, the cost can be reduced a little. One high and one low reflects the whole process of buying and selling market activities.