Hoil is significantly cheaper. And the price of diesel fuel, which is closely related to production, has also fallen noticeably. This is also remarkable because the sharp rise in prices had previously been interpreted as fear of a winter with considerable heating difficulties. Since the beginning of October, the price of heating oil has fallen from almost 170 to around 138 euros per 100 liters. The Internet portal Heizoel24, to which more than 500 oil traders report their prices, cites, among other things, the well-stocked gas storage tanks as a reason for the calming of the market – as well as the many ships with liquid gas still waiting off Europe’s coasts.
Diesel at the filling station has also become cheaper, while at the same time the unusually large difference in price compared to premium fuel has shrunk somewhat again. As the ADAC car club reports in its weekly analysis of the prices of more than 14,000 petrol stations, the price of diesel has fallen by 5.1 cents to an average of 2.065 euros per liter within a week. At the same time, the price of premium petrol has risen by 3.7 cents to 1.910 euros per liter. This means that the difference between diesel and premium prices has fallen by at least 8.8 cents, from more than 24 to 15.5 cents per liter. Apparently there were even individual gas stations where diesel was cheaper than Super, at least at certain times of the day.