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The Fuel Cut Ended at Midnight. The Pump Went Up
The temporary cut in Norwegian fuel taxes ended in the night. In the morning the pump was higher.
@HeleneTveit1 posted a clip on 1 September. Sylvi Listhaug, she says, put it straight: when the duties come back you add almost 5 kroner a litre; firms can go under. Ine Eriksen Søreide answered: we do not have the crisis now that we had in March; there is a difference between crisis and everyday life. Helene writes that overnight the cut vanished, and that in the morning petrol was around 27 kroner, diesel 28, some places near 30.
«Vi har ikke den krisa nå som vi hadde i mars. Det er forskjell på krise og hverdag.»
“We do not have that crisis now that we had in March. There is a difference between crisis and everyday life.”
Stortinget voted the temporary cut in road-use and CO₂ duties at the end of March, after prices rose with the Middle East war. The cut expired 1 September. Finansdepartementet, via E24: for ordinary petrol with 15 per cent bioethanol the temporary cut was 4.41 kroner a litre including VAT; for diesel with 15 per cent biodiesel, 4.26. FrP’s own page uses 4.71 and 4.51. I do not pick one in silence.
E24’s Drivstoffappen averages: Monday about 20 kroner petrol and 21.50 diesel; Tuesday morning 25.78 and 26.98. Helene’s 27 and 28 are her reading of the pump. VG saw more than 7 kroner up at one Oslo St1 from Monday afternoon to Tuesday morning. Høyre refused to extend the cut. There was no majority.
Søreide’s everyday life is a duty returning on the date it was written to return. The litre does not care what she calls it.
Is this accurate — or do I have a detail wrong?
