The prices for gasoline and diesel are skyrocketing.
In Lower Saxony, a gas station on the A7 has now even cracked the two-euro mark.
Hildesheim / Göttingen - For weeks the fuel prices have been rising more and more.
While prices per liter of two euros might have been unimaginable for some people recently, this is exactly what is now becoming reality.
For example, the A7 petrol station Hildesheimer Börde Ost called a peak value for diesel on Monday (October 18, 2021), the price has meanwhile been 1.88 euros.
For super fuel, on the other hand, it was around ten cents more, where the price was at times 2.06 euros - for a liter of gasoline.
Ndr.de reports about it.
What is behind the high prices for diesel and gasoline
"Since the recording, that's about 30 years, that's the highest price," said an ADAC spokeswoman for the diesel price in relation to the NDR.
This development is "dramatic for the commuter." This development is primarily due to the rising oil price.
This has almost doubled within a year.
As welt.de reports, the long-term increase in oil is due to the global economic recovery after Corona *.
The high price of fuel is also made up of taxes and duties. According to the portal tanken.de, the energy or mineral oil tax in Germany amounts to 65.45 cents per liter for gasoline, while it is 47.07 cents for diesel. In addition, there is VAT of around 27 cents for gasoline and 25 cents for diesel - at least if you stick to the current price level. The CO2 price introduced this year also ensures single-digit cents. Transport and processing must also be financed. What remains is the profit for petrol stations and the oil industry. Petrol station operators recently asserted that they too were dissatisfied with the current situation *.
Since the FDP, as part of a possible traffic light coalition *, calls for the expansion of CO2 emissions trading to include the entire transport sector, the price of fuel could rise even further in the next few months.
While the price for gasoline and diesel in Germany is already scratching the two euros in some places, in the Netherlands you have to leave even more money at the petrol pumps.
In the Czech Republic, however, fuel costs 44 cents less, which is why many German citizens accept a trip to the neighboring country.
(Nail Akkoyun)
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