In the nationwide daily average on Sunday, the diesel price was 1.555 euros per liter – at individual petrol stations even higher.
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Dusseldorf While long queues form in front of the petrol stations in Great Britain, they are currently rather empty in Germany, because: The fuel prices are sometimes higher than ever before. In the nationwide daily average on Sunday, the diesel price was 1.555 euros per liter, as the ADAC announced on Monday. It exceeded the old high of 1.554 euros from August 2012.
Gasoline is also approaching a peak. Super of the E10 variety was 1.667 euros per liter on Sunday. This means that only 4.2 cents are missing from the record of 1.709 euros on September 13, 2012.
Even within a day, prices fluctuate significantly. “The fuel prices at the filling stations are changing more often than ever,” says Andreas Hölzel, company spokesman at ADAC. Opaque for the consumer, good for the seller: “The reason for the fluctuations is that the oil companies are trying to boost their profits with the frequent price jumps.”
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