Why Germany’s gas prices are surging while Spain’s are falling

March 29, 2026

The Iran war is driving up global fuel costs. Germany isn’t facing the worst increases worldwide, but its fuel costs are still far higher than in Spain or Italy. How did those countries manage to reduce the cost of gas? Should Germany follow their lead?

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7 Comments

@Pas-j1v5x on March 29, 2026 1:14 pm

Usual Germany bankrupt the people
@sensnowy on March 29, 2026 2:40 pm

Lmao
What is this reporting ?
Germans co2 tax on diesel is fixed at 47 cents. No matter the price of the diesel. Also the last time the German government lowered the tax in 2022, the prices rose back up after 2 weeks to eat up all the subsidiaries.
@Johnny-wz5bh on March 30, 2026 4:37 am

The food prices are going up as well,but nobody's making drama about that.
@icascone on March 30, 2026 5:31 am

Reducing the price hike to once a day…?? I don't understand how that works… It sounds laughable!
@Hukkinen on March 30, 2026 7:56 am

Wow, limiting fuel selling price changes to one per day? 😮 – How was the situation before and after? Why only one per day and nor two?
@LiLiPuTa23 on March 30, 2026 12:16 pm

Tax tax tax only tax.
@toniog0462 on March 30, 2026 9:35 pm

Reducing taxes is the dumbest concept imaginable as apart from how effective it will be reducing fossil fuels prices will only increase our dependency on them. Which is a big problem as very few in Europe produce fossils and the alternatives like solar/wind/biogas are extremely cheap if planed on a time scale of 10-20 years. Meaning the longer we invest in fossil the more it will cost us long term.