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Well in Italy we’re not so distant with a +180% ca.

Germany is nearing 300%

that's a lie

Is it? Net price if 1l petrol is around 40 euro cent. At the gas station you can get one Liter for 160 cents. As I’m writing the cheapest price is 168 cents.

it is 50+ euro cent per liter (platts cotation) and it's arround 15 euro cent per liter for transportation + storage and services

Fuel taxes in Germany are €0.6545 per litre for conventional unleaded petrol, plus Value Added Tax (19%) on the fuel itself and the Fuel Tax.

so the 19% VAT is 30cents + 65 cents petrol tax is 95 cents in total for tax

the remaining 65 cents are for fuel price and profit

so it's more like 150%-200% but not 300%

300% compared to when? And where are you getting your info from? Googling for "gasoline prices Europe" and it's apparently nowhere even close to that.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of either of these sites but they have nice historical price charts:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/603701/diesel-fuel-price...

https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gasoline-prices

Italy also doesn't seem to be even close to 180%: https://tradingeconomics.com/italy/gasoline-prices

300% is not the increase, but rather the tax on the raw price of petrol as I understand it.

The corruption in both countries seems to have universal effects.

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