Most of the petrol stations on Lanzarote are to be found on the main roads in and out of the resorts, as well as near the airport – the logical place to fill up hire cars before returning them.
The prices must make visitors from the rest of Europe envious, with Super 95 Octane costing about 77 cents per litre on our last visit, compared to around €1.40 per litre in Germany!
Some petrol stations are not even self-service, so be prepared for a short wait and to pay the attendant at the pump.
Something interesting has happened at petrol stations in Germany in the last few weeks – the price of the “normal” (91 octane) petrol has been brought into line with “super” (95 octane) fuel.
Speculation followed in the German press, that the petrol stations wanted to phase out the lower grade fuel to make space for other products, and so had raised the price to persuade consumers to switch to the next alternative. Indeed, in a number of European countries 91 octane fuel is no longer available.
And whilst some cars being sold in Germany state in their manuals that they should be filling up with the “normal” petrol, others fill up with it just to save money. But now some petrol stations have stopped selling it altogether.
Of course, it would be nice if they used this extra capacity to sell something new, such as bio-ethanol. Unfortunately, I have the feeling that they will just use it to sell more “super” or even 98/100 octane fuels. Just imagine what effect it would have if one of the major chains starting selling bio-ethanol nationwide!
There is, however, a glimmer of hope. I was in Frankfurt last night and spotted a petrol station belonging to one of the major chains selling gas on it’s forecourt (real gas, not just the American English word for “petrol”!) I that’s at least a step in the right direction.
Whilst I may now be filling up with bio-ethanol, I am still interested in the price of normal (95 octane) petrol for my wife’s car. And having just written 3 blog entries about the prices of things going up, I went back through the log book to see if this was true of petrol as well.
We tend to see the price of petrol as something that goes up and down, although more up than down, especially in the summer months.
Actually, it started the year at 1,239EUR/litre and finished off at 1,369EUR/litre – no question about that being a price increase then.
But in-between it reached 1,419EUR/litre (or even more, but we didn’t fill up when it did!) in May, returning to 1,289EUR/litre in August. So even if there was an overall increase, it did go back and forth during the year.
How we long for the Summer of 2003 when we first bought the car, and paid as little as 1,034EUR/litre!
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