9-euro ticket and tank discount are running out. From September 1st, there will no longer be a special effect that throttles prices at the petrol pump, and cheap public transport throughout Germany will come to an end. While the cheap ticket is well received by the ADAC, the automobile club relentlessly calculates cheap fuel: return undesirable.
With the End of tank discount and 9 euro ticket many consumers in Germany are becoming increasingly concerned about price developments. The ADAC accepted these at a press conference on the occasion of the end of the measures from the federal government’s relief package.
Announcement from ADAC: The tank discount should never return
There was at least one piece of good news: the traffic experts from ADAC do not expect prices at the pump to skyrocket again on September 1st so much that they will erase the entire effect of the tank discount. Instead, one expects that the Prices will only rise moderately for at least a few more days. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that the gas stations were able to replenish their supplies while the tax cut was still in effect.
On the other hand, the price development of the past few weeks has already anticipated the big jump to the end of the tank discount in many places. The end of which now offers the mineral oil companies Opportunity to get a new price cushioncriticized ADAC Transport President Gerhard Hillebrand.
Because, according to ADAC investigations, the price advantage was never fully passed on to consumers anyway, he asks not to continue the tank discount. Instead, possible future relief should be given preference to those affected, such as commuters by strengthening the distance allowance.
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Successor to the 9-euro ticket: ADAC wants it to continue
The ADAC is significantly happier with the 9-euro ticket and recommends finding a successor arrangement. After previous resistance, Finance Minister Christian Linder (FDP) has just made it public that the government is making big strides towards this.
In a poll by the ADAC, a clear majority of 59 percent stated that they wished for a continuation of a cheap public transport offer. How cheap it could be, however, remained open. For example, Hillebrand spoke of a 69-euro ticket, as the Association of German Transport Companies had demanded. Meanwhile, politicians are now talking about a 49-euro ticket.
Either way, according to the ADAC, it is more important that the public transport offer is improved and the Germany-wide validity be preserved than on the price.