Gas costs rising in Germany, U.K.

[unhappycamper]

Gas costs rising in Germany, U.K.
By Matt Millham, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, November 16, 2007

Wallets everywhere beware: Prices for all grades of fuel sold through the Army and Air Force Exchange Service will jump an average of roughly 10 cents a gallon Saturday in Germany and the United Kingdom.

It’s the fourth straight week that U.S. fuel prices — on which AAFES prices in Germany and the U.K. are based — have gone up, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The price of all grades of fuel have increased an average of about 35 cents per gallon from a month ago.

The latest jump pushes regular gas, sold only in Germany, up 9.8 cents to $3.278 a gallon — almost 90 cents more than a year ago.

Midgrade gas is up 10.1 cents to $3.385 in Germany and $3.323 in the U.K. Premium, also up 10.1 cents, hits $3.492 in Germany and $3.43 in the U.K. Both grades are also about 90 cents per gallon more expensive than a year ago.

Diesel prices in both countries are up 12.2 cents a gallon to $3.592 in Germany and $3.53 in the U.K.

In the Netherlands, where AAFES fuel prices are based on the local cost of buying and distributing fuel, midgrade gas is up 4.8 cents per gallon to $3.803. Premium, up 5.2 cents, is now $4.093 per gallon. Diesel, which had lagged behind surging gas prices in the Netherlands, rises 26 cents a gallon to just over $4.10.


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[Greeby]

1. Don't I know it

I currently work in the shop of a BP station (trying to find something better) and all I get is complaints, as if I can do something about it

[DFW]

2. How about those of us stationed in Germany who live outside the bases?

I'm paid in dollars like the rest of you, but I have to pay the $8 a gallon that the Germans pay.

[cyclezealot]

3. In the south of France a gallon has gone up about

10 centimes. Is that an European average.