Even if gasoline prices are currently at a relatively low level, one or the other is certainly happy if he can also save some money on refueling. All he has to do is drive to the gas station at the right time.
Comparing fuel prices still pays off for drivers: “Within a city or region, that can be as much as 20 cents per liter a day,” said the President of the Bundeskartellamt, Andreas Mundt, on Thursday at the presentation of the annual report by the market transparency agency for fuels. Accordingly, the prices between petrol stations vary considerably and “change frequently and significantly during the day”.
Significantly higher prices on highways
The fuel is the most expensive between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. in the morning, and prices fluctuate widely as the day progresses, but decrease overall until the evening. Between 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., motorists fill up the cheapest, according to the cartel guards. Whether you do it in the city or in the country doesn’t matter. At truck stops, fuel costs up to four cents per liter more on average and “considerably higher prices” are to be expected on the motorway: the surcharge here could be up to 25 cents per liter.
Kartellamt chief Mundt advised consumers “to get information and to refuel at the cheap petrol stations at certain times of the day”.
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