German tank tourists on rampage in Austria
German tank tourists overrun gas stations in Austria because of the cheap fuel. Even petrol pumps are not safe from them.
Austria – The exploding fuel and energy prices in Germany are not only a major burden for motorists and endanger entire livelihoods: In Lower Saxony, a large company had to close due to exploding energy costs. The exploding energy prices do not go unnoticed by the providers of charging current: they are now raising the prices. In order to escape the price shock, many motorists stormed the petrol stations in neighboring Germany. Panic is spreading: Drivers filled whole canisters with fuel – operators worried about the shortage of petrol locked their fuel nozzles with cable ties, but some customers simply tore them off. The rush to the Austrian gas stations puts the residents under tension.
Central European landlocked country: | Austria |
Capital city: | Vienna |
Prefix: | +43 |
Population: | 8,917 million (2020) |
German drivers overrun gas stations in Austria: aggressive and “foolish”
German consumers are fleeing rising fuel prices – according to “focus.de”, many German drivers drive to neighboring countries in order to be able to refuel cheaply. While some to Act of desperation and fill up on salad oilmany other motorists storm gas stations in Austria and Poland – German petrol stations are threatened with extinction. In Austria, the price of diesel had recently broken the two-euro mark – a liter of petrol costs just under two euros. So the price is still much cheaper than in Germany – and especially than in Germany Hamburg, with record high fuel prices for petrol and diesel. The rush to gas stations abroad is all the greater – including the Reinpolds Tiroler gas station.
German tank tourists out of control: they even rip off locks on fuel nozzles
Gas station manager Romina Reinpold locked her fuel nozzles with cable ties – out of concern about a lack of petrol. After all, this will not only be more expensive – but also scarcer for providers. But some customers simply ripped off the attached barrier and filled up anyway. “People panic that they can’t get anything anymore,” said Reinpold, “and rightly so,” she quoted t-online. On Sunday afternoon, her gas station actually ran out of gas.
Hartwig Bamberger also felt the panic of German drivers: “People are getting crazy,” says the head of the Kufstein police. According to Bamberger, the gas stations would be completely overrun at the weekend. Some tank tourists would even come with canisters to fill them up with fuel: the main thing is that they get their hands on “cheap” fuel. As a solution, In order to save petrol resources, an environment minister called for car-free Sundays – the tank-mad Germans prefer to turn the demand into the opposite with their Sunday riots.
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Tank tourism burdens residents in Austria: Because of traffic jams, they have to take detours
The enormously high fuel prices are not only a burden for German motorists – although petrol tourism is flourishing in Austria, the petrol stations are not really making any profits. “Unfortunately, we are currently buying at prices that I have not experienced in the last seven years as an authorized officer,” said Reinpold.
The residents would also have to take detours because cars are queuing on the main streets in front of the gas stations, and long queues of cars form in front of balconies. “The nerves are on edge,” Bamberger summed up the situation. Consumers in Austria and Germany are demanding that fuel prices be curbed in the form of a petition or as in Hamburg through demonstrations against the high fuel prices in the motorcade. *kreiszeitung.de and 24hamburg.de are an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.