Last year was turbulent for diesel and petrol prices in Norway, where we surprisingly saw that diesel prices were often higher than petrol prices.
This is because the purchase price of pre-refined diesel increased more than the purchase price of pre-refined petrol.
However, Nettavisen can report that the photo was reversed on Sunday 5 February at a Circle K station in Asker. While the diesel price was NOK 19.69 per litre, the petrol price was NOK 20.39 per litre.
– Diesel now has a lower price than petrol
– Recently, the purchase price of petrol has increased more than the cost price of diesel. That is the reason why the price picture has changed, says communications manager Knut Hilmar Hansen in Circle K Norway to Nettavisen.
– Diesel now has a lower price than petrol, he states.
About the concrete price example from Asker, Hansen says the following:
– The price picture you refer to from Asker, with such low prices, is due to a local price war.
– Sterk competition
He says it’s happening in a number of places right now.
– Strong competition, what is also referred to as “price wars”, we see in many places now – with low prices locally at the pumps.
The average price of petrol in December was NOK 19.30 per liter and for diesel NOK 20.11 per litre, according to figures from Statistics Norway (SSB).
