Data from the EU Commission
Diesel became particularly expensive in Germany
05/08/2022 01:43 am
Gasoline and diesel prices have risen since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Data from the EU Commission show that in both cases the increase in Germany was particularly high. The left demands a reaction from the federal government.
Nowhere in the European Union 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.
Accordingly, the price of a liter of diesel in Germany rose by 38 cents between February 21 – three days before the start of the war – and April 25, from 1.66 euros per liter to 2.04 euros per liter. Only in Sweden and Latvia did the diesel price also increase by 38 cents during this period. In France, on the other hand, according to the data, the increase was only 17 cents, in Italy only five cents. 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 increased by 23 cents in Germany since the beginning of the war, only in Austria the price increase was 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.
In view of the development, the co-chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group, Dietmar Bartsch, called on Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck of the 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”.