After discovering the world's largest oil reserve, Brazil has a gasoline money changer.

It's unbelievable, but true: Brazil, which, with the pre-salt reserves, made the biggest oil discovery of the 21st century, has hit rock bottom with the sale of gasoline on the black market, on internet sites; all this is the result of the sell-out by Pedro Parente, appointed by FHC to head Petrobras in the PSDB-MDB coup; on Mercado Livre, an advertisement from a seller in Mateus Leme, in Greater Belo Horizonte, advertises the sale of a 20-liter can of regular gasoline for R$ 150 - each liter costs R$ 7,50.

May 29, 2018, 21:24 AMUpdated May 28, 2019, 09:32 AM

It's unbelievable, but true: Brazil, which, with the pre-salt reserves, made the biggest oil discovery of the 21st century, has hit rock bottom with the sale of gasoline on the black market, on internet sites; all this is the result of the sell-out by Pedro Parente, appointed by FHC to head Petrobras in the PSDB-MDB coup; on Mercado Livre, an advertisement from a seller in Mateus Leme, in Greater Belo Horizonte, advertises the sale of a 20-liter can of regular gasoline for R$ 150 - each liter costs R$ 7,50 (Photo: Leonardo Lucena)

Mines 247 Opportunists trying to profit from the fuel shortage in the country due to the truckers' strike and increase the price of gasoline.

On Mercado Livre, an advertisement from a seller in Mateus Leme, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, advertises the sale of a 20-liter can of regular gasoline for R$ 150 - each liter costs R$ 7,50, according to a report by [source name missing]. O Tempo Newspaper.

The product description includes a contact phone number, but calls went unanswered, the news outlet reported. The advertiser also did not respond to messages sent through the website.

Another ad on Mercado Livre, from a seller in the capital of Minas Gerais, also advertises a full gallon of gasoline for R$ 150, but it was a joke. The advertiser said he had no fuel to sell and that his idea was to "stage a silent protest."

On the OLX website, an advertiser from the Santa Inês neighborhood, in the Northeast region of Belo Horizonte, is advertising a gallon filled with five liters of gasoline, but without stating the price. He did not answer calls to the number listed on the page and also did not respond to messages.

In another advertisement, this time in São Paulo, published on the Mercado Livre website, a resident is selling three 10-liter cans of regular gasoline, but does not state the price and says that he only delivers the fuel in the vicinity of the red line of the São Paulo metro.

According to federal laws 8.176/91 and 9.605/98, as well as ordinance 116 of the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), selling, storing, and even transporting fuels without authorization are practices that constitute environmental crimes and also crimes against the economic order.

The websites Mercado Livre and OLX have not commented.