Gli automobilisti olandesi inondano la Germania per chiedere benzina più economica dopo che Berlino ha tagliato le tasse sul carburante
https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/02/dutch-drivers-flood-germany-cheaper-gas-berlin-slashes-fuel-taxes
di Same_Efficiency_3325
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We shouldn’t make fuel cheaper. We should consume less.
Is the cheaper fuel in the room with us? Still paid 2,02€ in Germany yesterday
Same with italians on slovenian border 😃
Isn’t the Dutch government planning to temporarily cut fuel taxes so that prices will come down a little?
Germans living at borders to czech or poland are doing stuff like that since years. Same thing with swiss people living on the border to germany.
Its not even cheaper ffs.
The equivalent happens in reverse, of course, at the Polish border, Germans going there for cheaper gasoline.
As I just drove through all three countries yesterday: best price for E10 I’ve seen in DE was about 1.98 per litre. In BE it was as low as 1.77. Don’t go to Germany for gasoline!
German: “..”
Slovenia: “First time?”
How does gas become cheaper when you cut taxes? Isn’t it like a rule that the difference is then pocketed by the companies and shops?
And Canada drivers invade border towns in the USA for the same reason
This has been happening since the beginning of time along any border in Europe, people on one side cross for cheaper groceries and the ones on the other side come for cheaper fuel or whatever
Germany: “Yeah, let’s crank up demand during a fuel crisis.” Great.
Ffs, insulate homes, reduce max speed on highways, make public transport cheaper and better, less sales tax on EV, *just do anything but making fossil fuels cheaper*.
The EU wants to punish hungary for limiting lower fuel prices to hungarian licence plate cars.
I am curious about what the germans will do, when you have to wait to fill up your car while the cars from neighbouring countries flood your filling stations with 2-3 jerry cans.
To all the people pointing out that this “has been happening at all borders forever”, I feel like the point here is that prices are specifically lower because they are subsidised by the German tax payer now. And the blame is of course not on the Dutch but on the German governement for implementing such nonsense.
Curious does any country in Europe call petrol ‘gas’?
First time? They’ve been flooding Belgian gas stations for decades