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Bolsonaro reaffirms that Petrobras can subsidize the purchase of cooking gas

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, reaffirmed that Petrobras has a fund of about R$3 billion (US$577 million) to make a program along the lines of the "vale-gas" voucher, to subsidize the purchase of cooking gas cylinders for the country's low-income population.

"This proposal is quite advanced. It depends on small adjustments because Petrobras is not mine. It also has private shareholders. We are negotiating this," said the president during an interview to Radio 96 FM, from Natal (RN), on Wednesday August 4. "The idea is to give a gas cylinder . . .

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