When a crisis – as the one that is being lived in the Middle East for the attacks in recent days between Israel, Iran and the USA – appears, the energy market takes a few days to begin to reflect it. And, a week and a half after these tensions shot up, the effects that the conflict is having on the oil rise –quoting around 77 dollars each barrel of Brent– It is already being noticed in the fuel price. A reality of increases compared to which the Valencian Community is not being an exception.
More than 70 euros per deposit
Because according to the latest records offered by the Ministry for Ecological Transitionboth the average cost of liter of gasoline and diesel accumulate a upward trend in Valencian service stations. In the case of the first one, this increase has been four cents – until staying at 1,506 euros/liter – during the last two weeks, an increase that for those who want to fill a 50 -liter deposit involves allocating two euros more for each replacement. Specifically, if at the beginning of June a Valencian paid for that fuel A total of 73.3 euros, after the first envy of the conflict that price is already placed at 75.3 euros.
Even more upload can be seen among those drivers who need diesel to their vehicles. Specifically, each liter of this fuel has gone from value 1,354 euros to 1.41. This climb, almost six cents, implies that each driver who has come in the last hours to fill his deposit has had to pay on average 70.5 euros, almost three more than 67.7 euros that I had to pay on June 8.
A motorcycle and a car at a Valencian service station, this morning. / Miguel Ángel Montesinos
Outstanding rise in 2025
This cost of costs is also The most important climb from the first measures of the yearsince only in the month of January there was a similar increase – motivated by the greatest demand and doubts for the supply of oil that China or Russia could contribute – that raised prices. Now, however, this upward trend is not yet known if it will have end. Not surprisingly, in the focus is the Ormuz Strait, a point through 20 % and 30 % of the world crude that Iran's Parliament advocated this weekend for closing in response to US attacks on three nuclear facilities.
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