Refueling is more expensive in Germany than anywhere else. “Gasoline and diesel have recently been significantly more expensive at German filling stations than in most of Germany’s direct neighbours,” is the result of a comparison by the Federal Statistical Office, which is based on data from the EU Commission and the Market Transparency Unit for Fuels at the Federal Cartel Office. According to this, motorists in Germany paid an average daily average of 2.06 euros on April 4 – both for a liter of Super E5 and for a liter of diesel. Compared to the direct neighboring countries, the price for a liter of premium E5 petrol on that day was only higher in the Netherlands and Denmark. Diesel was nowhere more expensive than in this country. On this date, people in Poland had to pay the least at gas stations, and refueling was also cheaper in Austria, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Belgium and France than in Germany. In general, refueling remained significantly more expensive in the first week of April than it was before the war in Ukraine, even if prices have now fallen again from their highs in the second and third weeks of March.
On March 10, for example, E5 still cost 2.26 euros, diesel even 2.33 euros per liter. On February 21, just before the start of the war, it was only 1.80 euros and 1.66 euros for diesel.