Is that the light at the end of the expensive tunnel?
Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) believes that a reduction in the price of fuel by around 50 cents per liter is possible. “Based on the current 2.15 euros for the liter of Super E 10, we can achieve a price of 1.62 euros per liter with a fuel price brake, i.e. 53 cents cheaper than at present,” said Hans of the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post” on Saturday. This will be made possible by a temporary reduction in VAT to seven percent.
“We were able to do that within a few days during the corona pandemic, and that must now also be done in an urgent procedure between the Bundestag and Bundesrat,” he told the newspaper. In a second step, energy taxes would have to be reduced to the minimum allowed by the EU for a limited period of time.
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“In this way we can manage to get away from the two euros and more per liter of fuel,” said the Prime Minister, who has to face state elections in Saarland at the end of the month. It is also important to him “that there is a signal, ‘we are taking action’. Prices must not always go up.”