You won’t find any petrol station in Europe, Great Britain or the USA that has more expensive petrol than the ones you are thinking of here at home.
Not even an American auctioneer with a cowboy hat can count as fast as the price counter at a Danish gas station. If you compare with other petrol stations in Europe, Great Britain and the USA, there are actually none that count as quickly as the Danish ones.
With figures from GlobalPetrolPrices have British XCite Car Leasing made a ranking of fuel prices in 22 EU countries as well as Great Britain and the United States. Here, Denmark takes first place in terms of price per liter of petrol. And although we are still at the heavy end of electricity and diesel, there are other countries that are worse off.
Italy is the most expensive
In the overall ranking, not only petrol prices are assessed. This also includes diesel prices and the price of electricity for electric cars, where the number of charging stations per square kilometers are also included in the countries’ overall score. If you take all factors into account, Denmark is not the most expensive. It is Italy, on the other hand.
The Italians are the sixth most expensive for petrol and diesel, while they are the most expensive when electric cars need to be charged. They are closely followed by Switzerland, which has the most expensive diesel in Europe, and then the UK, which scores poorly due to high prices of electricity for electric cars.
Overall, Denmark lands in fifth place for the most expensive fuel prices. We are the most expensive for petrol, eighth most expensive for diesel and sixth most expensive for electricity prices. Only our solid infrastructure for charging electric cars saves us from a poor bottom position, as we, together with the Netherlands and Belgium, are in the lead here.
At the opposite end we find the USA, which is the cheapest country on the list when it comes to fuel. This is largely due to the prices of petrol and diesel, which are DKK 6.88 and DKK 6.84 respectively. litres. Also the price per kWh is 50 percent cheaper than it is in Denmark. On the heels of the USA we find Turkey, which is also cheap across the board. However, neither is impressive when it comes to infrastructure for electric cars.
