During February, the price of fuels rose again by 4% on average, as the Government agreed with the companies in the sector in November of last year. These updates, framed within the Fair Prices program, made traveling by car to nafta be even more expensive.
It is that, if we add the expenses that the tolls and the parking lota person who travels every day from the Greater Buenos Aires to Capital to work, you will spend more than $35.000: Logically, it will depend on where you are moving from and the type of fuel you are carrying.
In this sense, according to a survey carried out by iProfessionalThey registered raises up to a 87% in this “package” of expenses. Although this is a figure that is below the inflation general estimate for that period, do not rule out new raises in the tolls for March what, which will be added to the new planned update of fuels.
How much does it cost to travel from Zona Norte to Capital
To estimate the money that would be spent to travel every day to the City of Buenos Aires from the North Zone from the Conurbano, the 32 kilometers it takes to make a trip from Tigre until the Buenos Aires center. In this case, the following costs should be considered:
- Combustible: If it is estimated that an average gasoline car consumes about 8 liters per 100 kilometers, it would take about 5 liters per day to make the round trip. That is, they would spend some $815 per day in nafta super or some $1.025 if fuel is loaded Premium.
- tolls: in this case, if the cabins of the Pan-American highway and the Illia are taken into account, round trip will be spent $450 in tolls per day.
- Parking lot: If the idea is to travel to the center by car every day and leave it in a garage, for cost reasons, it is convenient to get the monthly subscription, since the daily will end up being more expensive. The average value of the garagesin this case, is around the $13,500 per month.
Traveling from Tigre to the center of Buenos Aires can demand about $38,800 in fuel, tolls and parking.
This means that a person who travels every day from Tigre to the center of Buenos Aires, you will spend a few $38,800 per month (if you load super gasoline) or $43.000 (if you choose Premium gasoline). This amount had an increase of about 74% in one year.
Traveling from the West Zone costs about $50,700 per month
Meanwhile, to calculate how much a trip from West Zone to the City, the 40 kilometers that separate Moreno with the center of Buenos Aires.
- Combustible: in this case, an average gas-powered car would spend about $1,060 per day (if super charge) to make the round trip; a sum that can rise to $1,330 if you use Premium gasoline.
- In tollsmeanwhile, they will spend $802 per daycontemplating the booths of Autopistas del Oeste and Perito Moreno during peak hours.
- Finally, the monthly payment must be added in a garagewhich rounds the $13.500.
That is, if travels every day by car from Moreno to the center of Buenos Aires, a person will spend about $50,740 per month (if you use super gasoline) or $56.140 (if you load Premium). This represents an increase of the order of 67% in the last year.
Travel to the City from the South Zone, from $35,000 per month
Finally, to evaluate the expenses that will be incurred by making a daily trip from the south of Greater Buenos Aires to the Capital, the route from Quilmes to the center of Buenos Aires: it is about 23 kilometers.
To travel from the South Zone of the GBA to the center of Buenos Aires, about $655 per day is spent on gasoline.
- In combustiblethey will spend some $655 per dayif super gasoline is loaded, some $820if the Premium variant is chosen.
- while in tollsa total of $420 per daytaking into account the cabins to “go up” to the Buenos Aires-La Plata Highway and in Dock Sud.
- Finally, regarding the parking lotthe monthly payment of $13.500 the average cost of a garage in the City of Buenos Aires.
That is, if a person travels every day from Quilmes to the center of Buenos Aires, you will spend a few $35.000 (if you load super gasoline) or $38.300 (con Premium).
This values represent an increase of 87% per year: This is a greater variation, for example, than that registered from the North Zone and the West Zone, since in December the tolls of the Buenos Aires-La Plata Highway had increases.
Gasoline and tolls, with further increases expected in the future
In November of last year, the Government and the companies oil companies agreed on a scheme of increases in the fuel price of the order of 4% for the months of December, January and February, and of a 3.8% for March.
This last increase, in effect, will take place next month to complete the agreement entered into under the Fair Prices program. Although it will be somewhat less than in recent months, it will add pressure extra so much to the inflation general as well as the cost of moving in auto.
New toll increases are not ruled out from March
It is that, although it has not yet been officially confirmed, toll increases are also expected of the various highways. For example, in December the tolls of the Buenos Aires-La Plata they had an increase of 90% and a new rise of 35% is estimated for March.
In addition, increases are not ruled out to circulate through the Pan American y West Accesswhose rates have been frozen since February 2022. And there would also be increases, partly in March and partly in May, for the tolls of the Buenos Aires highways: May 25, Perito Moreno and Illia.
