Petrom made diesel cheaper again, and the price difference between petrol and diesel fell to two pennies

Petrom, the leader of the fuel market in Romania, has made diesel cheaper again. It is the third decrease since April, after on Tuesday, April 23, standard gasoline became cheaper by two paise per liter and standard diesel by 4 paise per liter, and on Saturday, April 20, the price of diesel fell by 6 paise per liter.

This time, the price of diesel fell by three paise per litre, a price change applied on Thursday, April 25, at lunchtime.

The Petrom Vitan station, monitored by Economedia, displays the following prices on Friday, April 26, 2024: 7.39 lei for a liter of standard gasoline and 7.41 lei per liter for standard diesel.

According to peco-online, at Petrom stations in the capital, the price of a liter of standard gasoline is now between 7.33 lei and 7.40 lei per liter. In the case of standard diesel, prices vary between 7.39 lei and 7.42 lei per liter. Thus, the difference between a liter of petrol and diesel has now reached only two pennies.

Fuel prices have fluctuated a lot in the last two years, with the biggest difference being recorded in October 2022, when diesel was 1.5 lei more expensive per liter. Then, after a series of changes, gasoline and diesel arrived at the end of April 2023 at the same price, whether it was 6.60 lei or 6.61 lei per liter.

And on May 25, 2023, standard gasoline from Petrom became more expensive than standard diesel. It was a first in recent years. At Petrom stations in the capital, according to peco-online and the Price Monitor, a liter of standard gasoline then cost between 6.42 lei and 6.48 lei. And standard diesel had prices between 6.43 and 6.46 lei per liter. Prices started to rise again by the fall of last year.

Compared to March 2024, the average price of a liter of gasoline increased by 4.1%, which means that a full tank (50 liters) costs 14.5 lei more today than 30 days ago. In the case of diesel, the average price of a liter increased by 0.3%, which means that a full tank (50 liters) costs 1 lei more today than 30 days ago.

During this period, Romania ranks 3rd in the European Union among the countries with the cheapest gasoline, after Bulgaria and Malta. In the case of diesel, our country is in 3rd place among the European Union states in terms of the lowest price for this type of fuel, after Bulgaria and Malta.