Consumer protection chief demands in BILD |
No price increases following the end of the tank discount
In one week (September 1st) the tank discount ends! The liter of petrol will then be taxed 35 cents more, diesel by 17 cents.
Consumer protection boss Ramona Pop (44) warns the oil multinationals not to raise prices! Pop to BILD: “The crisis has led to record profits for the mineral oil companies. So there is no inevitable need for the companies to increase fuel prices once the tank discount has expired.”
Germany’s top consumer advocate calls on the Federal Cartel Office to “monitor prices closely and punish excessive price increases or anti-trust behavior with high fines.”
► The ADAC also criticizes that “an increase in prices following September 1 by 35 cents or 17 cents” is “not justified”.
Because, according to the association: “The fuel prices were already far too high before the tax cut on June 1, but they remained so during the discount campaign.”
The fuel association “en2x” counters this: “Because drivers are likely to visit the gas stations more often before the end of the fuel discount, we expect that from September 1st there will not be much tax-privileged petrol and diesel on offer.” once more significantly more expensive.
After all: The ADAC does not expect that “the cancellation of the tank discount will be reflected at the pumps overnight”.
But the association draws an overall critical conclusion of the tank discount. Overall, it had “not been passed on in full” over the past almost three months: “Here we see the mineral oil companies as beneficiaries. They have more than quintupled their margins in the refining market since the beginning of the year.”
SPD politician Ralf Stegner (62) therefore demands that the state intervene to rein in the oil multinationals: “Where the market does not work and there can be no question of a social market economy, political intervention must take place!”
