Prices at the pump have leapt since the start of the conflict – but clinging to fossil fuels will only prolong the pain, says Berlin-based journalist Tania Roettger
I don’t really understand the comments. If the fuel taxes work just like here in Italy, because the tax is a percentage of the final price, when the petrol price goes up, the government basically takes extra money… during a crisis.
Capping the tax is a sensible move so at the pump you only pay for the increase in fuel price, and you keep paying roughly the same amount of taxes.
I am wrong? Of course you also should incentives electric cars, but switch to electric is a longer process that responding to a crisis.
EDIT: I didn’t know fuel taxes are a fixed amount in Germany. Now I understand the other comments. Thank you for explaining.
They reduced the tax starting may 1st by 17 cents. The fuel cost at the gas stations rose exactly 17,7 cents on April 30th 12 o clock sharp. All across the country.
So now the oil companies make 17 cents more profit per liter, while the price stayed exactly the same. At the small price of a few billion euros tax money lost…
The reality is that the tax is reduced by a fixed 17 cents per liter. Now petrol stations have increased the price of the actual petrol by (even more than) 17 cents the day before the tax cut came into effect.
So those 17 cents per liter of extra profit are now paid by the taxpayer – regardless of whether they drive with petrol or not – directly in the pockets of mineral oil corpos.
It’s nothing but a gift from the German government to oil companies, at the expense of the German people. And exactly this was predicted by many economists and activists.
I don’t really understand the comments. If the fuel taxes work just like here in Italy, because the tax is a percentage of the final price, when the petrol price goes up, the government basically takes extra money… during a crisis.
Capping the tax is a sensible move so at the pump you only pay for the increase in fuel price, and you keep paying roughly the same amount of taxes.
I am wrong? Of course you also should incentives electric cars, but switch to electric is a longer process that responding to a crisis.
EDIT: I didn’t know fuel taxes are a fixed amount in Germany. Now I understand the other comments. Thank you for explaining.
They reduced the tax starting may 1st by 17 cents. The fuel cost at the gas stations rose exactly 17,7 cents on April 30th 12 o clock sharp. All across the country.
So now the oil companies make 17 cents more profit per liter, while the price stayed exactly the same. At the small price of a few billion euros tax money lost…
Mineralölsteuer, which is lowered now is a fixed amount. Only VAT increases which the price.
The reality is that the tax is reduced by a fixed 17 cents per liter. Now petrol stations have increased the price of the actual petrol by (even more than) 17 cents the day before the tax cut came into effect.
So those 17 cents per liter of extra profit are now paid by the taxpayer – regardless of whether they drive with petrol or not – directly in the pockets of mineral oil corpos.
It’s nothing but a gift from the German government to oil companies, at the expense of the German people. And exactly this was predicted by many economists and activists.