It is particularly extreme at the moment in Constance on Lake Constance.
A liter of gasoline cost a proud 1.67 euros in the beautiful town last.
Above all, the location in the extreme southwest of the republic and the low competition from supermarket petrol stations should make petrol there even more expensive, so it is said.
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But the same applies throughout Germany: Refueling is more expensive than it has been for years.
In its weekly evaluation of the prices of 14,000 petrol stations, the ADAC comes to an average price per liter of 1.50 euros for the first time since May 2019.
Over the year gasoline rose by 27.5 percent, reports the Federal Statistical Office.
Two reasons for the price increase
At 1.37 euros per liter, the price for diesel was already back on the order of the expensive tank autumn 2018. At that time, low water on the Rhine and its tributaries also made fuel more expensive.
The anger escalated, at that time even a gas station boycott was called over the Internet.
Even now, the upper limit for the fuel price has by no means been reached.
Two factors have recently made gasoline so expensive, and both could lead to even higher prices: The price of crude oil has more than tripled since last spring to almost $ 75 per barrel of the North Sea Brent.
In addition, there has been a CO2 price for climate protection in Germany since the beginning of the year, which - politically intended - additionally increased the price of fuel.
The greater part of the price increase of more than 30 cents per liter since last autumn has, however, been caused by the rise in the price of crude oil.
Manuel Frondel, an energy specialist at the RWI research institute, calculates the new CO2 price for gasoline by 7 cents and diesel by 7.9 cents.
The rise in the price of crude oil, in turn, has two main reasons: the closer the pandemic comes to an end, the higher the expectations for oil demand around the world.
Eventually the economy picks up again and people drive more cars again.
At the same time, especially in the first few months of the year, the states of the oil cartel OPEC and their allies kept oil production artificially low in order to earn more from oil.
Effects of the struggle for more climate protection on the price of crude oil
The upswing after the pandemic is likely to push the oil price up further. The first oil traders are already anticipating an increase of up to 100 dollars per barrel. That alone would raise the price of gasoline by 15 cents, calculates energy professor Frondel. That would be 1.65 euros per liter on a national average. In expensive cities like Konstanz, fuel could then cost more than 1.80 euros. The oil countries in particular benefited from this price increase.