Petrol and diesel again cheaper

Gasoline and diesel after more than a quarter cheaper again. The domestic oil company OMV has with immediate effect for the first time since mid-September lowered its target prices.
2 cents less for gasoline, 3 cents for diesel
Euro Super is cheaper and costs two cents at the pump now € 1.064 per liter.

For diesel is a price reduction of three cents per liter striking. One liter of diesel now costs € 1.009, gave the OMV announced on Tuesday.
Falling prices in Rotterdam
As a reason called the oil company falling prices on the Rotterdam market products, their claims to be crucial for the European and domestic petrol market.

The price of premium gasoline octane is 100 € 1.162 per liter, Super Plus is easy to have around € 1.134 per liter at the pumps. The price of gasoline is specified with € 1.044 per liter.
First reduction in more than a quarter.
Historical peak in summer 2006
Last summer, the domestic fuel prices reached a record high - super cost € 1.224 € in July, yet per liter, diesel 1.114 €.



Gasoline prices are already through September but then dropped again by almost 15 cents, the price of diesel by seven cents. The reduction is thus formally on Tuesday, the seventh in a row.
ÖAMTC and ARBÖ "long overdue"
As "long overdue" refer to the Austrian automobile clubs ÖAMTC and ARBÖ the fuel price cut. Finally, the last price reduction already lying back more than three months, despite the fact that crude oil prices had on the international markets for weeks in the fall.

Diesel drivers in the previous year but remained at a disadvantage in price reductions, says a press release from the ÖAMTC Tuesday. "Be promptly forwarded to the Austrian motorists, especially the troubled diesel drivers passed," according to ÖAMTC transport industry expert Elisabeth Brugger-Brandau would need subsidies for crude oil, however.

The ARBÖ calls for further price cuts. "Every minute, with the long-overdue price increase is delayed, increasing the profits of oil companies and filling the coffers of the Treasury - on the backs of motorists," said the ARBÖ. The newly announced reductions in target prices had little effect, because this would only cheapen the prices at the most expensive gas stations. Drivers of diesel cars in 2006 to spend on average € 270 more for fuel than it did three years ago. This is an increase of 39 percent, reported the motorist club ARBÖ.