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Fuel prices in Spain: week 19 of 2009

4 May – 10 May 2009

Diesel rose by 0.7 cents over the week, to 0.866 €. Petrol 95 rose by 1.9 cents over the week, to 0.968 €. That is the highest petrol 95 price since Nov 2008. A year earlier diesel cost 1.211 €: it is now 34.5 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Álava (+1.6 cents). Diesel fell most in Melilla (−1.2 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.775 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 4 MayMon 11 MayChangeWeek average
Diesel0.8590.8660.7 ¢0.860
Petrol 950.9490.9681.9 ¢0.957
Petrol 981.0621.0791.7 ¢1.069

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

0.850.900.959 Feb30 Mar11 MayPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 11 MayChange
Rose most
Álava0.8621.6 ¢
Bizkaia0.8621.6 ¢
Burgos0.8621.6 ¢
Cantabria0.8621.6 ¢
Córdoba0.8631.6 ¢
Fell most
Melilla0.6631.2 ¢
Ceuta0.6221.1 ¢
Las Palmas0.5820.7 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 11 MayChange
Rose most
Albacete0.9872.5 ¢
Alicante0.9882.5 ¢
Álava0.9592.5 ¢
Asturias0.9872.5 ¢
Illes Balears0.9692.5 ¢
Fell most
Ceuta0.6850.5 ¢
Melilla0.7100.5 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1070.580 28.6 ¢0.700
bonÀrea300.775 9.1 ¢0.894
Alcampo380.839 2.7 ¢0.938
Carrefour980.856 1.0 ¢0.959
Agla500.862 median0.960
Avia860.862 median0.959
Petronor1810.862 median0.959
Shell3000.862 median0.962
BP5210.867 median0.970
Campsa900.868 median0.967

* 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$ 56.0208.05.2009 · a week earlier: $ 51.75
Brent, € per litre0.262 €08.05.2009 · a week earlier: 0.245 €
EUR/USD1.342508.05.2009 · a week earlier: 1.3275
Spain in the EU, diesel7 / 2711.05.2009 · Spain 0.868 €, EU average 0.981 € (1 = cheapest)

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.