Petrom, the leader of the fuel market in Romania, on Wednesday morning made standard gasoline cheaper by 4 banis per liter and kept the price of gasoline unchanged. After this change, diesel fuel is still more expensive than gasoline, but the difference has reduced from 7 banis per liter, as it was on Saturday, to 3 banis per liter.
The Petrom Vitan station, monitored by Economedia, displays the following prices on Wednesday, May 8, 2024: 7.34 lei for a liter of standard gasoline and 7.31 lei per liter for standard diesel.
Fuel prices changed twice last week as well. Thus, compared to Saturday, April 27, 2024, when diesel became cheaper than gasoline, prices changed twice: on May 1, when gasoline became more expensive by two pennies and today, when diesel became cheaper by five pennies .
According to peco-online, at Petrom stations in the capital, the price of a liter of standard gasoline is now between 7.28 lei and 7.35 lei per liter. In the case of standard diesel, prices vary between 7.29 lei and 7.32 lei per liter.
Compared to last month, the average price of a liter of gasoline increased by 1.8%, which means that a full tank (50 liters) costs 6.5 lei more today than 30 days ago.
In the case of diesel, the average price of a liter decreased by 2%, which means that a full tank (50 liters) costs 7.5 lei less today than 30 days ago.
During this period, Romania is in 3rd place 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.
Compared to the other EU countries, Romania ranks 16th in tax-free gasoline, as the cheapest, after Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, while tax-free diesel sold in us is on the 14th place in the list of the lowest prices, after Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia
