Petrol consumption in Germany rose for the third year in a row in 2023. This is according to official mineral oil data from the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA). According to the data, domestic deliveries of petrol amounted to 17.3 million tons last year. This was 416,000 tonnes more than in the previous year. Compared to the coronavirus-related low point in 2020, this is an increase of almost 1.1 million tons. In the years before the coronavirus pandemic, petrol consumption was trending downwards – as recently as 2010, it was 19.6 million tons. In addition, the number of …