Fuel prices remain at an extremely high level. Falling oil prices have recently not provided any relief for drivers. Under normal circumstances, petrol should actually be significantly cheaper.
Fuel prices have stopped their rapid increase. The prices for Super E10 and diesel stagnated for the third day in a row, as the ADAC announced on Monday. You can currently see a calming down at an extremely high level.
However, the recent fall in oil prices has not caused the decline that was actually to be expected.
Super E10 therefore cost 2.199 euros per liter on a nationwide daily average on Sunday. That is 0.3 cents more than on Saturday and 0.3 cents less than on Thursday. Diesel cost 2.305 euros per liter – an increase of 0.3 cents on Saturday and a minus of 1.6 cents on Thursday.
For some time now, the ADAC has been observing a decoupling between oil and petrol prices: “The decades-old experience that the petrol price is based on the price of crude oil does not currently apply,” said fuel market expert Jürgen Albrecht.
“At the current oil price, one would actually expect an E10 price of well under two euros,” he emphasized. “However, there are special factors related to the war that are driving up the price. It is not clear whether these justify the current price level or whether there are also deadweight effects.”
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Fuel prices are currently at an unprecedented level after skyrocketing in the first two weeks of the Ukraine war – sometimes by more than 10 cents a day. Diesel has risen by a good 64 cents since the beginning of the war, and Super E10 by almost 45 cents.
However, Albrecht does see hope for a normalization of the market situation: “Sooner or later the current decoupling of fuel prices from oil prices should be broken again. At the moment, however, it is not possible to say when this will be the case, because it also depends on developments in Ukraine.”