Eli Puola laskenee dieselin hinnan noin 1.80€ per litraan vähentämällä alvia ja polttoainevero EU:n minimiin, hienoa mähdä että jossain maissa poliitikot tekevät eivätkä vain selitä.
Just in⛽️🇺🇸🇵🇱: Diesel Prices Are Finally Falling. Should America Look At What Polish PM Donald Tusk Just Did In Poland?
Diesel markets are finally moving in the direction truckers have been waiting for.
European diesel prices dropped sharply Friday as governments discussed releasing huge amounts of emergency fuel reserves into the market. France has proposed releasing roughly 50 million barrels of diesel as part of a broader international response to the global fuel crisis.
But while governments debate what to do, Poland has already taken a much more aggressive approach.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government created a program literally called CPN, “Ceny Paliwa Niżej,” or “Lower Fuel Prices.” It temporarily cut VAT on fuel from 23% to 8%, reduced fuel excise taxes to the minimum permitted under EU rules and introduced a maximum price mechanism at Polish gas stations. The government estimated those measures could reduce prices by roughly 1.20 zł per liter.
Then Tusk went after extraordinary profits being made by fuel companies during the crisis.
His government proposed a temporary 60% tax on windfall profits, with roughly 4 billion zł expected to help finance the fuel relief program. President Karol Nawrocki initially refused to sign the earlier legislation and sent it to Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal. Tusk’s government brought the legislation back and pushed again.
This time, Nawrocki signed it.
The Polish president announced October 1 that he had approved the windfall tax legislation, clearing another obstacle to the government’s fuel program.
And Polish fuel prices are now expected to fall substantially. Analysts are forecasting gasoline around 6.61 to 6.74 zł per liter and diesel around 7.75 to 7.89 zł next week. Global wholesale fuel prices are also falling, and separating the exact contribution of each factor isn’t possible yet.
But Poland made a deliberate choice: instead of simply waiting for the global market to fix itself, the government cut fuel taxes, capped prices and taxed extraordinary fuel company profits to help pay for it.
Meanwhile, American truckers are still paying extraordinary diesel prices while Washington debates emergency reserves, fuel taxes and other possible relief.
Maybe America doesn’t need to copy Poland exactly.
But Poland just demonstrated that “there’s nothing the government can do about fuel prices” isn’t really true.