Status: 05/08/2022 11:09 a.m
The price of a liter of diesel has risen in many European Union countries since the outbreak of war in Ukraine. However, nowhere was the increase stronger than in Germany.
Nowhere in the European Union (EU) has the price of a liter of diesel increased more than in Germany since the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. This emerges from data from the EU Commission, which the Federal Statistical Office sent to a request from the left in the Bundestag and from which the Funke media group quoted.
Diesel price increases by 38 cents since the beginning of the war
According to the report, the price of a liter of diesel in Germany rose by 38 cents from 1.66 euros per liter to 2.04 euros per liter between February 21 and April 25, three days before the start of the war. Only in Sweden and Latvia did the price also increase by 38 cents during this period.
A liter of diesel went up by 17 cents in France and by five cents in Italy. Looking at the development since the beginning of the year, the price for a liter of diesel has increased by 47 cents between January 3rd and April 25th in Germany.
The price of a liter of Super 95 has risen by 23 cents in Germany since the beginning of the war, only in Austria has the price rise been even higher at 24 cents. In Hungary, on the other hand, the price even fell by 6 cents in the same period, and in Italy by as much as 8 cents.
Bartsch: Oil companies are “shamelessly” exploiting the situation
In view of the development, the co-chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group, Dietmar Bartsch, called on Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) to take action against the “price gouging of the mineral oil companies”. The federal government must “stop the take-along mentality of the oil companies, which are shamelessly exploiting the current situation to line the pockets of their shareholders,” Bartsch told the Funke newspapers.
He described the reduction in energy tax planned by the traffic light coalition for three months as insufficient. Rather, the energy tax must be suspended “as long as the prices are at an unacceptably high level”.