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'How to make gasoline' explodes in Google searches after fuel price hikes.

Searches for "homemade gasoline" have also increased more than 300 times on Google in the last seven days, compared to the same period last year.

Gasoline prices at refineries will increase by 0,5%, Petrobras announces (Photo: Paulo Whitaker - Reuters)

247 - The number of internet searches for "gasoline" quadrupled in the last seven days compared to the previous period, according to Google Trends data. Searches for "homemade gasoline" also increased more than 300 times on Google in the last seven days, compared to the same period before.

According to column by Monica BergamoSearch interest for "gasoline" reached its second-highest level in the historical series over the last 18 years. The record was set in May 2018, the month of the truckers' strike during Michel Temer's government.

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