At the moment, fuel prices can only go in one direction: up.
The economy in Upper Bavaria, for example in the Erding district, is groaning.
Erding - On Monday morning the liter of diesel in Erding cost 1.56, Super 1.78 and E10 1.72 euros.
Within a week, prices rose by nine cents per liter.
The (artificial?) Shortage on the crude oil market, the elimination of the reduced VAT and the new, rising CO2 tax are to blame.
Escape from the Corona crisis will be made much more difficult for a number of industries.
Anton "Burli" Fürmetz, a forwarding agent from Taufkirchen, has a fleet of 220 trucks. Around 8.5 million liters of diesel run through their tanks every year.
Fürmetz has a diesel sliding clause in the contracts of around half of its customers.
“It is helping us at the moment,” reports the entrepreneur.
Because when the contract is signed, the fuel prices of the past three months would be added and then an average price would be formed.
That is why the increases are not yet reflected in this area.
"But if the price falls, I'm worse off," the freight forwarder calculates.
With all other customers he has to pass on the rising costs - but this is not possible 1: 1.
"The overspending is very much left to us."
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In itself, reports Fürmetz, he got through the crisis well.
“In winter we have always deregistered all trucks - the only exception: 30 to 40 beverage trucks.
"They were less busy, but they took over some building material transports, our main business."
In order to save, Fürmetz asks his drivers to train so that they use as little diesel as possible.
“In our fleet, even cents are very important,” explains Fürmetz.
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The Tittenkofener bus company Scharf pumps 800,000 liters of diesel into its fleet in normal years, while Corona, according to owner Andreas Scharf, only had around 500,000, mainly for regular and school bus traffic. He, too, cannot simply pass the price jumps on to the client - the city and district of Erding as well as municipalities. "There is only the possibility of adjusting the prices once a year on the basis of an index that is calculated from the fuel prices of the past," says Scharf. For 2022 it will be the tariffs of 2020 and 21, a time when diesel was cheaper. In the coming year, however, he will have to price in the rising CO2 tax. “That really hurts,” said Scharf. The development makes it difficult for his company to leave the crisis behind.“The travel business is still very sluggish anyway, we hope to do business in the autumn break.” Scharf is happy that the regulations have been relaxed: “We can fill up the buses again and also serve alcohol. In addition, a medical mouth and nose protection is sufficient instead of the FFP2 mask. ”That could encourage clubs to catch up on their trips. He had deregistered 28 buses during the lockdown, six of which are still there.
Fuel is becoming more and more expensive: Drivers take frustration out on petrol station employees
The petrol station tenants get the wrath of the motorists.
“People think it's our fault.
We can listen to a lot there, ”reports Martin Anzinger from the Agip petrol station on Haager Strasse in Erding.
He sees himself wrongly in the pillory: "We can't help it and receive just one cent per liter."
At Anton Fürmetz, who also runs a petrol station in Taufkirchen, it is six to seven cents per liter because he is also the owner.
“Unlike the tenants of the petroleum companies like Shell or Esso, we also have to bear all investment and operating costs,” explains the owner.
Because there is a large and inexpensive competitor in Dorfen, he also has to calculate very tightly.
Fuel costs more and more: Emergency services also suffer
The BRK rescue service, which has two emergency doctors, three ambulances and four ambulances in action in the district, cannot simply drive less.
BRK spokeswoman Danuta Pfanzelt reports that the costs are billed through the cash registers, i.e. passed on.
The BRK makes 25,000 missions every year - most recently due to clinics that are not ready to take in more and more trips.
According to Pfanzelt, the supervised driving service covers 300,000 kilometers a year.
Here you have to partially compensate for the increases yourself.
The Taxi Association Erding, in which 17 companies with 22 vehicles are united, has no chance of passing on the increased operating costs.
"We are bound by the district's tariff system," says chairman Ersan Sürücü.
The drivers would sometimes drive to self-service pumps at night "because it is cheaper then".
Everyone, according to Sürücü, “tries to drive as economically as possible”.
One hopes for an end to the price gouging.
"We have had a very difficult year and a half in which sales fell to five percent of a normal year," said the chairman.
After the Corona crisis, which hit Erdinger Tourism harder than other regions in the Munich area, the district wants to break new ground - and use the motorhome boom.