Where is the cheapest fuel for your car in your area of Spain?
The link to the Webpage of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Turism will give you the answer.
Click on it and try looking in your area. Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo - Precios Carburantes
Showing posts with label Fuel Prices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fuel Prices. Show all posts
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Double Whammy on the Cost of a Cylinder of Butano
The price for a 12.5 Kg cylinder of Butane gas (orange cylinder) will suffer two increases from tomorrow, 1st July 2010.
The first increase of 0.55 €, from the current price of 11.68€ to 12.23€, including tax at 16%, an increase of 4.7% is due to the quarterly review of the maximum sale price before tax of liquefied petroleum gas. The price is 84.4041 cents per kilogram which gives a price before tax of 10.55€
This latest increase is in addition to that applied in the first quarter of 5.7 % , and in January , 3.4% , and causes the gas cylinder to be more expensive by 14.4 % so far this year .
The double whammy comes because on the same date the Spanish government is increasing the rate of IVA (value added tax) from 16% to 18%.
The new price including increased IVA should be 12.45€. This means an actual increase of 6.4% from the current 11.70€.
There will be a pro rata increase for the silver cylinders of butane.
The application of this rise will affect between 8 and 10 million users in Spain who still use butane gas. The resolution, published today in the Official Gazette, covers all liquefied gas containers weighing between eight and 20 kilograms.
The higher cost of butane occurs even though the Ministry of Industry has found a 0.79% decrease in the cost of liquefied petroleum gas.
Post Script, 06.07.10: the CoastRider newspaper picks up on this article, 'Gas goes up'
The first increase of 0.55 €, from the current price of 11.68€ to 12.23€, including tax at 16%, an increase of 4.7% is due to the quarterly review of the maximum sale price before tax of liquefied petroleum gas. The price is 84.4041 cents per kilogram which gives a price before tax of 10.55€
This latest increase is in addition to that applied in the first quarter of 5.7 % , and in January , 3.4% , and causes the gas cylinder to be more expensive by 14.4 % so far this year .
The double whammy comes because on the same date the Spanish government is increasing the rate of IVA (value added tax) from 16% to 18%.
The new price including increased IVA should be 12.45€. This means an actual increase of 6.4% from the current 11.70€.
There will be a pro rata increase for the silver cylinders of butane.
The application of this rise will affect between 8 and 10 million users in Spain who still use butane gas. The resolution, published today in the Official Gazette, covers all liquefied gas containers weighing between eight and 20 kilograms.
The higher cost of butane occurs even though the Ministry of Industry has found a 0.79% decrease in the cost of liquefied petroleum gas.
Post Script, 06.07.10: the CoastRider newspaper picks up on this article, 'Gas goes up'
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Anger as 65,000 expats claiming winter fuel payments
Here we go again, knocking the Expats!
Not all of us Expats that are over 60 living outside UK receive the allowance. Even if we are still paying tax in the UK we are not entitled to claim the allowance, and we don't!!!!!
Possible solutions to reduce the costs of the allowance could be to make it a means tested payment, as with pension credits; to make it only payable to those in receipt of state pension.
Of course a much easier way would be to pay an increased state pension so as to remove those less well off pensioners from being in a situation of fuel poverty.
Perhaps it might be possible for a system to be instigated whereby the power companies could claim the allowance direct from the government for their, power companies, customers who are entitled to the allowance and registered as such.
Winter fuel bonanza for 64,000 expats in Europe - Times Online
Not all of us Expats that are over 60 living outside UK receive the allowance. Even if we are still paying tax in the UK we are not entitled to claim the allowance, and we don't!!!!!
Possible solutions to reduce the costs of the allowance could be to make it a means tested payment, as with pension credits; to make it only payable to those in receipt of state pension.
Of course a much easier way would be to pay an increased state pension so as to remove those less well off pensioners from being in a situation of fuel poverty.
Perhaps it might be possible for a system to be instigated whereby the power companies could claim the allowance direct from the government for their, power companies, customers who are entitled to the allowance and registered as such.
Winter fuel bonanza for 64,000 expats in Europe - Times Online
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Find the cheapest gas stations in Spain.
In the last year the price of gasoline has risen 30% and diesel has risen 20%.
The website notes that these large rises in the last year will result in an increse in the cost of filling a 40 litre tank with gasoline of 11 euros or 6 euros for diesel.
To find the cheapest service stations, enter the town you want to look in and the type of fuel for your vehicle in the search bowes and the site tell you where to find the cheapest gas station. Alternatively you can enter a route and search to see where the cheapest gas station in the journey.
Today I've asked for a search in Orihuela Costa for gasoline sin plomo 95 with the result that the cheapest is Eroski in Punta Prima at 1.098€/ltr and in second place Carrefour at 1.112€/ltr. The most expensive, in 10th place is the Repsol service station in Los Balcones at 1.132€/ltr.
The site lists the service stations and shows their locations on a street map.
Try it and bookmark it gas.encoche.com .
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