US EditionCartel Office Complains "Missile and Spring Effect" at Fuel Price
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The prices at petrol stations fluctuate almost every hour - which is a problem for consumers. The German competition guardians make a special effect here. And they investigate how long a cheap petrol station remains cheap.
Only slowly are falling costs for fuel prices passed on to the gas station customers. This is the result of the Federal Cartel Office and thus confirms what the ADAC repeatedly criticizes.
AGU (General Advocate General of the Union) asked for an investigation on anti-competitive stamps in front of the fuels you will see after analysing that distributors and sellers n would pass on to the consumer the losses recorded in the refineries. Read more (07/03/2025
The Federal Cartel Office criticises petrol stations: Up to 22 price changes a day cause trouble for the end customers. In addition, falling crude oil prices are only sluggishly passed on. However, petrol prices are also influenced by the climate. The article Petrol and diesel are too expensive: Now the service station operators are getting to the collar first appeared on inside digital.
If oil prices fall, petrol prices should follow quickly as well. Oil companies take their time, the Antitrust Office complains: Prices are rising like rockets, but like bird feathers, oil prices have fallen several times and recently increased, first because of Trump's tariff escapades, then because of the crisis in the Middle East. Drivers are used to the fact that the oil price also influences fuel costs. However, it is not fair to do so, as t…
Mineral oil companies are slowly passing on falling costs to gas station customers. Behind this is the "missile and spring effect".
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