The prices at Germany's gas stations have apparently risen again: On Friday, diesel cost more than 2 euros per liter at many stations.

The prices for Super E5 and Super E10 have also increased noticeably.

There are still clear differences between the individual locations and gas stations, and prices also fluctuate considerably over the course of the day.

But just two days after the reduction in the energy tax on fuel, part of the positive effect for motorists seems to have been eroded.

The Autoklub ADAC compared the fuel prices for the FAZ at 9:50 a.m. in order to eliminate the fluctuations in the course of the day.

According to this, on May 31, at this time, diesel cost 2.079 euros per liter on average across Germany.

With the tax cut on June 1st, the price dropped significantly to 1.941 euros.

"It's getting more and more expensive at the moment," said ADAC expert Christian Laberer.

"It's going in the wrong direction, without the oil price or the dollar exchange rate giving any reason for it." According to ADAC, Super E10 cost a nationwide average of 1.917 euros per liter on Friday.

That was 2.7 cents more than 24 hours earlier.

The figures are based on data from more than 14,000 petrol stations.

Since Wednesday, the tax burden on E10 has been reduced by 35.2 cents per liter.

For diesel it is 16.7 cents.

The €2 mark is also interesting because before the tax cut, politicians promised motorists fuel for noticeably less than this amount.

This was also seen as a noticeable sign that the tax cut is having an impact and that consumers are being relieved of energy prices and inflation as planned.

The FDP politician Johannes Vogel, for example, said before the tax cut on Markus Lanz's talk show that he expected petrol prices to fall "well below 2 euros".

Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens), on the other hand, had not previously wanted to rule out the possibility that fuel prices would actually rise at first if “everyone drove to the gas station on June 1” and demand increased and petrol suddenly became an even more valuable commodity.

Habeck meant

Contrary to fuel prices, oil is becoming cheaper

Meanwhile, crude oil prices fell on Friday.

A barrel (159 liters) of North Sea Brent cost $117.46 on Friday afternoon, 0.7 percent less than the previous day.

A barrel of the American variety WTI was traded for 0.8 percent less than on Thursday.

So the oil markets moved in the opposite direction to fuel prices.

"You could get the impression that the mineral oil industry is using the Pentecost wave for its own purposes in order to keep prices at a high level," said Laberer from ADAC.

The regional spokesman for ADAC North Rhine, Thomas Müther, expressed himself more drastically: "We have the impression that the mineral oil companies are exploiting the situation when many people go on vacation by car again over Pentecost and demand is high.

From our point of view, not passing on the full tank discount to the consumer and now even raising the prices, which are still completely overpriced, is bottomless cheek.” The customers felt fooled.