Overview
- The federal government and most gas station groups agreed Friday to renew the voluntary strategy that keeps regular gasoline under 24 pesos per liter and diesel under 27 pesos per liter through February 2027.
- The renewal will be formalized in a public signing with President Claudia Sheinbaum and continues a program first launched in March 2025 with repeated six‑month extensions.
- The Finance Ministry boosted weekly IEPS tax stimuli for August 22–28, giving diesel an 82.59% discount that leaves an IEPS charge of about 1.28 pesos per liter and increasing support for Magna to help stations meet the caps.
- Monitoring firm PETROIntelligence reports national compliance above 80%—about 87.1% for Magna and 85.5% for diesel as of August 17—but adherence varies widely by state and by whether stations are supplied by Pemex or importers.
- Smaller independent station owners say they were excluded from talks and report intensified inspections and data requests from regulators while government and industry keep working groups on logistics, regulation and anti‑illicit fuel efforts to support the pact.