Shocking: here’s the fuel price for cars with foreign licence plates – one exception
Starting from Friday midnight, cars with foreign licence plates cannot buy fuel at the capped price of HUF 480. There is one exception, though.
The new regulation
Gergely Gulyás announced at Thursday’s Cabinet Briefing that from Friday, cars with foreign licence plates will be banned from buying fuel at the HUF 480 (EUR 1.22) price. The decree was published in Magyar Közlöny at 11:59 pm last night. This meant that petrol stations had two minutes to figure out how to operate under the new rules.
As Blikk reports, the most important rule is that
from Friday, only cars with Hungarian registration plates can buy petrol or diesel at the official price of HUF 480 per litre.
There is one exception
However, the government decision also made an unexpected exception.
If fuel is officially priced (hatósági áras) in a foreign country, the car with the registration number of that country can also fill up with fuel at the official price in Hungary,
provided that the car with a Hungarian registration number can fill up at the official price there. The list of countries concerned will be published in a decree by the minister responsible for foreign policy, according to a summary of the provision published in Magyar Közlöny late on Thursday.
In other words, where there is also an official price for fuel, and it applies to Hungarian drivers, cars from that country will be able to benefit from the HUF 480 capped price. This means that, right now, cars with Serbian and Slovenian registration plates may form an exception.
Official price of fuel in Slovenia and Serbia
According to Blikk, in Slovenia, the price cap came into force on 10 May: the Slovenian Ministry of Economy set the retail price of EuroSuper 95 at EUR 1.560 and the wholesale price at EUR 1.540; the retail price of EuroDiesel is at EUR 1.668, and the wholesale price is at EUR 1.648. In Serbia, the government sets a monthly ceiling for the new fuel price: currently, the EuroSuper is EUR 1.528, and the retail price of EuroDiesel is EUR 1.715.
The last “foreign raid” on petrol stations
According to a Telex reader, half an hour before midnight, there was a queue of cars with Slovak licence plates at a Győr petrol station: they were waiting to fill their cars with fuel at the official price. Meanwhile, the station workers had no idea how they would technically manage the two prices. Their first decision was to turn away foreigners and not allow them to fill up at all after midnight.
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Source: Blikk, Telex, Magyar Közlöny
Why is it ‘shocking’? ‘Shocking’ to whom? Unless one is used to buying fuel that is heavily subsidised as it is Hungary, the price is not shocking in the slightest to anyone living in the rest of Europe. Don’t be overdramatic, it is not ‘shocking’ in the slightest. The DNH misuses the word ‘shocking’ with shocking frequency and more often than not, shockingly inappropriately.
Never let the free market spoil a political play! #controlisanillusion
Interesting – what you continue to see in Budapest in HIGH leval District as we live.
Latest B.M.W. – looked like straight off the showroom floor – registered with Ukraine Number plates.
Previously used this forum, to ask the QUESTION – why and how – and who is saying YES – we continue to witness in numerous Districts – mainly upper to middle class Districts – the increasing number of Ukraine registered motor vehicles ?
These vehicles are middle to upper class in range & type of Motor vehicles – but the question again I ask – the entering & authority of permission for them to enter Hungary – who is APPROVING this ???
@Concerned – Troubled, don’t forget that since coming to power some years ago, Fidesz have been handing out Hungarian citizenship and passports like to confetti to anyone in Ukraine who can claim to have the merest smidgeon of Hungarian heritage. This was in effect vote buying, or ‘gerrymandering’ to ensure continued electoral success. Thus in all probability, these high end Ukrainian registered vehicles belong to the so called ‘ethic Hungarians’ – especially the ones in the pay of Fidesz to stir up discord in Western Ukraine which they have been doing for some years.
Concur – Anonymous.
Riddled with Crime & Corruption deepening in our lives in Hungary, by this Fidesz led Government, under Victor Orban.
PROBLEM is – it ain’t ALL out yet – the DEEPNESS of the acts of Crime & Abuse – and “other” – that is the driven agenda of the Fidesz led Government under Victor Orban.
It gets UGLIER practically daily – and what – in the not to distant future, we are left with in Hungary, other than an increasing DICTATORSHIP – that’s the SCARY un-answered question.