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Fuel prices in Spain: week 12 of 2008

17 Mar – 23 Mar 2008

Diesel rose by 0.7 cents over the week, to 1.150 €. That is the highest diesel price since our records began in 2007. Petrol 95 hardly changed over the week and ended at 1.129 €. That is the highest petrol 95 price since our records began in 2007. A year earlier diesel cost 0.914 €: it is now 23.6 cents dearer.

Diesel rose most in Melilla (+2.6 cents). Among the large chains, Alcampo had the cheapest diesel at 1.130 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 17 MarMon 24 MarChangeWeek average
Diesel1.1431.1500.7 ¢1.148
Petrol 951.1271.129no change1.129
Petrol 981.2411.243no change1.243

The median of all stations at 00:00 Madrid time; the week runs from Monday to Monday (the prices after Sunday).

Diesel and petrol 95 in Spain, last 12 weeks

1.051.101.1524 Dec11 Feb24 MarPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 24 MarChange
Rose most
Melilla0.8832.6 ¢
Santa Cruz de Tenerife0.8112.3 ¢
Ceuta0.8521.6 ¢
Álava1.1491.0 ¢
Badajoz1.1491.0 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 24 MarChange
Rose most
Huesca1.1180.5 ¢
Fell most
Ceuta0.8482.0 ¢
Melilla0.8630.8 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1150.818 33.2 ¢0.840
Alcampo361.130 2.0 ¢1.111
Agla491.142 0.8 ¢1.118
Avia881.148 median1.118
Campsa951.149 median1.123
Cepsa6181.149 median1.129
Petronor1691.149 median1.118
Shell2571.149 median1.126
Q8681.150 median1.131
Carrefour941.151 median1.125

* Most of its stations are on the Canary Islands, in Ceuta or Melilla, where fuel taxes are lower.

Chains with at least 30 stations selling diesel; median prices at the end of the week, the difference is to the Spanish median.

Oil and the euro that week

Brent, $ per barrel$ 99.7820.03.2008 · a week earlier: $ 109.16
Brent, € per litre0.407 €20.03.2008 · a week earlier: 0.441 €
EUR/USD1.542320.03.2008 · a week earlier: 1.5561

Brent and the euro: the last value before each Monday. Pump prices follow crude with a lag of several weeks.

Brent oil price in euros per litre → · Fuel prices in Spain and the EU →

Sources: Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MITECO), open data; U.S. EIA (Brent); European Central Bank (euro rate); European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin (CC BY 4.0). Medians and changes calculated by Litrigo.