Data published by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) and compiled by the Sugarcane Industry Union (UNICA) point out that in September 2020 there was an important recovery movement in fuel consumption in Brazil . The result points to a 17.9% growth in the average monthly consumption of fuel from the Otto cycle over sales from March to August (4.32 billion liters versus 3.66 billion liters).

In the same way, both hydrous ethanol and gasoline registered similar expansion scenarios that reached 21.9% and 16.4%, respectively, compared to the months of most impacted by social isolation measures. Namely, 1.70 billion liters of hydrate and 3.13 billion liters of gasoline were consumed.

This scenario is even more significant, as all states showed growth in sales of hydrates and gasoline in September compared to the volume sold from March to August 2020.

It should also be noted that twelve states also indicated an increase in hydrous consumption compared to September 2019, with emphasis on the North and Northeast regions, which registered an increase of 9.8% and 1.0%, respectively. In this line, 19 states indicated an increase in sales of gasoline C, with emphasis also on the North (+ 9.9%) and Northeast (+ 3.6%), in addition to the Southeast which consumed 1.1% more gasoline in September than in the same month of the previous year.

In the accumulated from January to September 2020, fuel sales remain below the volume sold in 2019. Hydrous consumption accounts for a 15.2% retraction, with a total of 13.74 billion liters - even so as the second highest demand for hydrate in the historical series for the period from January to September. Sales of C gasoline, in turn, totaled 25.50 billion liters, a volume 9.1% lower than that registered in the same period of the previous year.

However, despite the observed retraction, ethanol maintained its share in the Brazilian fuel matrix at 47.0%, slightly lower than the index of 48.2% registered in the previous year. Highlights for the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais and São Paulo, which, due to tax policies that value the positive externalities of the use of biofuel for the whole of society, indicate more than half of consumption comes from renewable sources, 62, 5%, 68.0%, 53.9% and 63.6%, respectively.