O Comportamento do consumidor de combustíveis em meio à pandemia do Covid-19

Abstract

Due to security measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the fuel sector was extremely impacted, mainly due to its relation with transport. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to analyze the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the fuel market, presenting the economic impacts and addressing the fuel market before and after the pandemic. For this, through qualitative and exploratory research, we sought to, through a semi-structured questionnaire, know the point of view of professionals who work on this market, in addition to a bibliographical research also performed initially. The collected results, although on a small sample, were able to demonstrate that, in the context of the worldwide fuel market, fuel consumption has drastically decreased, due to social distancing and the increase of remote work, people are not circulating at the same rate, the are fewer diesel-powered busses on the 2 streets, there are fewer cars as well and there are fewer airplane trips, making oil refineries work as little as possible, with the smallest possible capacity.