The decline in motor fuel prices stopped in several EU states. The Internet portal natankuj.sk informed SITA that Slovakia dropped one spot in petrol chart to the seventeenth position. As for diesel price chart, the country preserved its twenty-sixth position.
In the monitored period, Bulgaria topped the petrol price chart with the average price of 95-octane petrol of SKK 32.43 (EUR 1.076) per liter. The same country led also the diesel price chart, with the average price representing SKK 34.13 (EUR 1.133) per liter. The average price of 95 octane petrol in Slovakia was SKK 40.82 (EUR 1.355) as of August 18. A liter of diesel cost SKK 43.77 (EUR 1.453) on the average.
When comparing EU petrol prices excluding taxes, Slovakia ended up in the seventeenth place, when the average price per liter accounted for SKK 18.80 (EUR 0.624). The average petrol price without taxes is in Slovakia higher by SKK 2.39 (EUR 0.0793) than in Bulgaria, being on the top of the chart. Considering diesel prices without taxes, Slovakia came in fifteenth, when motorists paid SKK 22.28 (EUR 0.7396) per a liter on the average. Bulgaria, the chart's leader, has diesel cheaper by SKK 3.14 (EUR 0.1042) compared with Slovakia.
When comparing fuel prices with taxes to other states in the Visegrad Group and Austria, Slovakia has the most expensive petrol and diesel. Poland has the second most expensive petrol, while the second most expensive diesel is sold in the Czech Republic. Compared with Slovakia, a liter of petrol in Poland is cheaper by SKK 0.03 (EUR 0.001), and a liter of diesel in the Czech Republic costs SKK 2.56 (EUR 0.085) less.
As for prices without taxes, Slovakia reported the highest petrol prices again, followed by Poland, which has diesel cheaper by SKK 0.31 (EUR 0.0103) per liter. Slovakia has the second cheapest diesel. Only Austria has cheaper diesel, the price of which is lower by SKK 1.21 (EUR 0.0402) per liter.