Black gold: Israelis are not waiting for prices to rise - and are in a hurry to refuel the car

With the increase that will take place tonight, the price of unleaded 95-octane gasoline will increase by 66 cents, and full service will cost another 21 cents per liter.

The price will be updated at midnight between Tuesday and Wednesday.

"A country is abusing its inhabitants," said one of the refuelers.

"They do what they want and we absorb," another asserted

Karin Sagi, Yoav Itiel and Uri Sela

31/05/2022

Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 21:00 Updated: 21:32

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The expected rise in fuel prices tonight (Tuesday to Wednesday) has led many Israelis to anticipate a cure for Mecca - and arrive to refuel their vehicles as early as tonight.

With the increase, the price of unleaded 95-octane gasoline will increase by 66 cents, and full service will cost another 21 cents per liter.

The price will be updated at midnight between Tuesday and Wednesday.

Danny, who refueled at the gas station on Dubnov Street in Tel Aviv, said "no one likes rising prices. People said it was possible to balance the rises in the world, but the rises in the world are a fact."

Roi, a resident of Tel Aviv, defined Israel as "a country that oppresses its inhabitants. My child went to friends, I said I would pick him up and fill up with fuel, I tried to make ends meet before night. It's a lot of money. 50 liters for 30 shekels. Feel the rise in prices. "In the United States, fuel costs half a map, but there the value of traffic is sacred. Here you can close all the roads, pick up sidewalks and disrupt traffic."

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Paz gas station in Petah Tikva, tonight (Photo: Reuven Castro)

"We are being strangled."

Issachar (Photo: Karin Sagi)

Taxi driver Yossi Delshad hurried to the gas station on Carlebach Street in Tel Aviv.

"The increase of course is very influential," he said.

"It has become a big part of the daily revenue. You have to work very hard to reach that amount. We are disappointed with the government. Prices go up but the rates are the same or go down. It is not easy to be a taxi driver."

Yehuda Issachar, a taxi driver from Rishon Lezion, said that "all prices are rising. We are being suffocated. We have to work harder. To close the gaps we have to work long hours anyway. Nine in the evening now and I drink black coffee in order to stay alert."

Limor also arrived just before the price increase - but did not know about it at all.

"Walla," she was surprised.

"Well, not surprising no matter what I say. I have nothing to tell the truth, because it will not help. They do what they want and we absorb."

Paz gas station in Tel Aviv, tonight (Photo: Uri Sela)

Doaah Abu Dahash, a mother of two from Paradise, a cleaning worker at a school in Kfar Kfar, arrived to refuel during the evening at the Dor-Alon station next to the mall in front of Zichron in Zichron Yaacov.

"Obviously we will feel such an increase in the wallet," she said.

"It will immediately affect our lives and I personally know I will have to travel less outside the village."

"These changes are incomprehensible at all, these increases do not match our salary stuck in place," said Tariq Amash of Jisr a-Zarqa, a father of two daughters, a physiotherapist and a certified brother by profession.

"I fill up with NIS 150 and it seems to me that tomorrow-the day after tomorrow I will have to come in and come again. We are arranged, but it is still significant. There are children to take care of them."

Those who are satisfied may be the owners of the stations.

According to the station's shift manager, the revenue tonight is 2.5 times that of a regular evening.

And not only there they saw a blessing - but also in the convenience store whose shelves were left half-empty during the drivers' onslaught on the pumps in recent hours.

Dor Alon Station in Zichron Yaacov, tonight (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

In the last month alone, the price of fuel has risen by another 12 cents.

In recent months there has been a rise in energy prices, mainly as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Although at the beginning of last month the Minister of Finance, Avigdor Lieberman, announced a reduction in the excise tax on fuel by half a shekel (for three months), which reduced its price, even if this reduction is extended for a longer period (as hinted by the Minister of Finance), fuel prices will increase To cost (unless it is decided on a discount that will be not only longer but also greater in taxation).

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