{"id":33709,"date":"2016-03-17T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-22T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T11:42:58","slug":"8709-prices-at-china-s-petrol-pumps-stoke-debate-on-fossil-fuel-subsidy-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/business\/8709-prices-at-china-s-petrol-pumps-stoke-debate-on-fossil-fuel-subsidy-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices at China&#8217;s petrol pumps stoke debate on fossil fuel subsidy reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8b307b1a-7b15-6f71-6d22-249fc9f3ae48\">China&#8217;s motorists\u00a0are now paying more for their petrol than drivers\u00a0in the US. While the price of crude oil has fallen globally, in China, the government has responded by introducing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldoil.com\/news\/2016\/01\/13\/china-sets-oil-price-floor-at-40-to-protect-domestic-supply\">floor price<\/a> on fuels equivalent\u00a0to\u00a0US$40 a\u00a0barrel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The floor price, introduced in January, has prompted a great deal of bellyaching on <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/24\/news\/china-oil-prices-consumers\/\">social media<\/a>,\u00a0and highlighted the competing priorities of China&#8217;s leaders when it comes to the incentives provided to producers, consumers in industry and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Fossil fuel subsidies\u00a0come\u00a0in the form of\u00a0government interventions such as\u00a0direct payments, indirect tax breaks and tariff exemptions,\u00a0often determine\u00a0energy prices for consumers. They also are used to\u00a0cushion costs and puff up revenues for producers of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese consumers\u00a0accuse\u00a0state oil producers, such as\u00a0Sinopec and China\u00a0National Petroleum\u00a0Corporation, of benefiting from government support\u00a0that keeps consumer prices artificially high. The state oil producers respond that\u00a0ever-higher tax bills are driving up\u00a0prices.<\/p>\n<p>However, in China, where oil reserves are scarce and production costs are relatively high, letting domestic oil prices fall in line with the international market could threaten domestic production, says\u00a0the government. China&#8217;s rulers\u00a0also want\u00a0to support domestic producers to limit\u00a0dependency on cheap imported oil, and bolster national energy security.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s government also points out\u00a0that low oil prices discourage the conservation of resources, leading to worsening air pollution and hindering the transition to electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/energy\/9396-china-to-reform-fossil-fuel-subsidies\/\">See also: China to reform fossil fuel subsidies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The online debate about\u00a0fuel pricing in China as part of\u00a0a broader international agenda around the reform of fossil fuel subsidies and how they are reported by finance and energy ministries, an issue that will be discussed at the G20 summit in September in Hangzhou.<\/p>\n<p>It has been seven years since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/planetpolicy\/posts\/2014\/11\/14-g20-fossil-fuel-subsidies-kirsch-roberts\">G20 leaders met in Pittsburgh<\/a>, when they first committed to\u00a0\u201crationalise and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption, over the medium-term\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, international bodies have been required to submit data on their fossil fuel subsidies phase-out efforts. China, however, has yet to make any disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being chair of this year\u2019s G20, China is the world\u2019s biggest energy user, with fossil fuels accounting for 88% of that consumption. China\u2019s lead on fossil fuel reform is critical to multilateral efforts to reform energy subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Lin Boqiang, director of Xiamen University\u2019s China Center for Energy Economic Research and leading expert on energy subsidies, told <em>chinadialogue<\/em>\u00a0how the debate on price incentives and floors\u00a0will evolve\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 374px;\" src=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/927\/24202905440_a504822bd0_z-2.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Lin Boqiang, director of Xiamen University\u2019s China Center for Energy Economic Research\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Image by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/worldeconomicforum\/24202905440\/in\/photolist-qUwz3p-qCJred-guroa8-gurGZU-dP1WB3-qC5sqD-pXKhfi-rhLFra-dP2oZX-rymgKs-jsHrt7-rwW8Pq-rhEmhS-qCTezT-rz7P9a-rz86Gm-qC5qqg-qCebh3-qCeaRy-bjJsZH-oSnMvF-qCJqHJ-oTfjTk-p9BDTz-guqRaS-dP2p8M-dNV4YF-yri5BF-xupHZH-yri2sz-xugzh9-ys1Esa-paKERt-gurpNi-paKJYg-paKKKB-oTgrNE-d9MadH-jCoK5h-CSJdz7-8Q74Hx-xugxH7-y9EURb-yoYoqC-y9FWGb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/worldeconomicforum\/24202905440\/in\/photolist-qUwz3p-qCJred-guroa8-gurGZU-dP1WB3-qC5sqD-pXKhfi-rhLFra-dP2oZX-rymgKs-jsHrt7-rwW8Pq-rhEmhS-qCTezT-rz7P9a-rz86Gm-qC5qqg-qCebh3-qCeaRy-bjJsZH-oSnMvF-qCJqHJ-oTfjTk-p9BDTz-guqRaS-dP2p8M-dNV4YF-yri5BF-xupHZH-yri2sz-xugzh9-ys1Esa-paKERt-gurpNi-paKJYg-paKKKB-oTgrNE-d9MadH-jCoK5h-CSJdz7-8Q74Hx-xugxH7-y9EURb-yoYoqC-y9FWGb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Economic Forum \/\u00a0Jolanda Flubacher<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8b307b1a-7b15-6f71-6d22-249fc9f3ae48\"><strong>chinadialogue (CD): Fossil fuel subsidies\u00a0are back on the G20 agenda, what do you expect to be the big talking points?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lin Boqiang (LBQ): Fossil fuel subsides are a complex issue, and while the G20 framework has produced a few reports, there haven\u2019t been any actual commitments on how to phase them out. Fossil fuel prices have plummeted over the past two years, reducing the pressure on governments to address subsidies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CD: In China, the collection of data surrounding pricing, taxation and funding systems lacks transparency. Should China move to a more transparent or Western approach?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LBQ: Fossil fuel subsidies are generally delivered either through pricing, taxation, or funding. In the past, energy prices were very high, so the government needed to keep prices down. Subsidies and taxation are two sides of the same coin. Taxation is a negative subsidy &#8211; while subsidies encourage consumption, taxation discourage it.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, I hope the authorities\u00a0will make the subsidy system clearer and more transparent.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, energy prices should be market-set and more transparent, with cross-subsidisation eliminated as far as is possible. If subsidies need to be retained, let\u2019s make them transparent. When you get an electricity bill or a receipt from the filling station, you should be able to see at a glance how subsidies and taxes have contributed to what you pay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CD: Would you say China\u2019s main task in coming years is to set up a transparent mechanism?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LBQ: Yes, so even if subsidies remain after reforms, the public knows what they are and that they are there. If they know what the subsidies are then there will be more accepting of future price rises. Meanwhile, the government can calculate more clearly the costs and benefits of its policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>I think we have a good opportunity for pricing reform now. Generally, the public aren\u2019t too concerned about how you take their money \u2013 they\u2019re mainly concerned about how much you take. So the current low prices mean you can make changes without increasing prices, and that reduces the obstacles to reform.<\/p>\n<p>The question is how do we use the\u00a0opportunity of weak energy prices to better manage energy prices, and introduce tools that can be used in the future to implement energy policy decisions. It\u2019s about enabling\u00a0people to see what is happening inside the &#8216;black box&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s motorists are grumbling about a recently-imposed floor price on oil products.\u00a0A\u00a0leading energy expert talks to Yu Jie\u00a0about\u00a0the country&#8217;s role in the\u00a0wider reform of fuel prices\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":58563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[758,757],"tags":[547,580],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-33709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-energy","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-policy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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