The mineral oil companies are at least not passing the tank rebate on to consumers in full. The fuel rebate is not working the way the government thought it would. That is why SPD leader Saskia Esken now wants to discuss driving bans and speed limits to punish the oil companies.
Reduction of the energy tax does not reach the petrol stations
The reduction of the energy tax on petrol and diesel has not been received by motorists at the petrol stations. On the contrary, prices are even higher than before the relief. The assumption is obvious that the mineral oil companies are keeping the prices for petrol and diesel artificially high and are at least not passing on the fuel rebate in full to the customers. “This stinks to high heaven. “The mineral oil companies must not cash in at the expense of the taxpayer,” says Saskia Esken.
That is why Esken wants tougher measures to punish the oil companies. She is referring to the 1975 Energy Security Act, which was passed in response to the oil crisis and was revised by the Ampel coalition in May. “It allows the government to order temporary measures such as Sunday driving bans – the older ones remember – or a temporary speed limit. But also price caps or – in the most extreme case – to put companies in critical infrastructures of energy supply under trust administration for a limited period of time,” Esken states in this regard.
Esken wants driving ban and speed limit to punish oil companies
Esken’s proposals show the powerlessness of the state vis-à-vis the globally operating oil companies. But also the full impact of a badly made law. Because the government’s fuel rebate law is not working due to significant mistakes against the corporations, their customers are now to be punished. Instead of correcting the flawed law to fix the original problem, now come economically misguided proposals that will lead to the punishment of all.
Government subsidises oil companies with 3 billion euros via fuel rebate
According to the president of the German Institute for Economic Research, Marcel Fratzscher, the fuel rebate is primarily a transfer of three billion euros in taxpayers’ money to the mineral oil companies. The corporations’ arguments on this are more than specious. For example, they claim that the petrol stations still have the expensively purchased fuel in their tanks. Therefore, the discount can only be passed on to the customer with the next purchase. However, this does not prevent the oil companies from changing the prices at the petrol stations several times a day. With this argument, however, this should not be the case at all.
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