Overview
- The temporary Energiesteuer reduction introduced on May 1 is set to expire on June 30, which removes about 16.7 cents of tax relief per litre.
- The ADAC advises motorists to fill up before Tuesday midday on June 29 because a rule lets stations raise prices only once each day at 12:00, which could concentrate last‑minute demand.
- The Monopolkommission and the Ifo Institute found that only about 15–16 cents of the 16.7‑cent cut reached consumers, leaving an estimated €100–200 million that did not reduce pump prices and varying by region.
- The industry group en2x rejects those findings and says competition among roughly 14,000 stations kept prices competitive, leaving the causes of the pass‑through gap contested.
- The rebate cost the state roughly €1.6 billion in total and critics say it favors high‑consumption drivers and weakens incentives to save fuel while recent oil‑market developments linked to the Iran negotiations may partly offset the expected price rise.