Sunday, April 6, 2025

Last gas station may be open: "Petrol is running out"

Swedish OKQ8 closes another gas station in a sparsely populated area. Some believe that the last new gas station in the country may have opened.

The last new gas station may be open. In other words, because petrol and diesel as fuel are on their way to oblivion.

At least someone in Sweden thinks so. And now the energy company OKQ8 is also closing another manned gas station and car wash. In the town of Degerfors, they have gone from six pumps to just two. One with petrol, another with diesel.

That's what Karlskoga Tidning writes.

– We have done that in several places. Fossil fuels are on the way out and the quantities are getting smaller. These were pumps that were originally intended for larger volumes and are very expensive today.

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– So when they are worn out, we simply don't replace them, says OKQ8 chairman Hans Fermer to the newspaper.

One of the reasons for the gradual shutdown in the sparsely populated areas of Sweden is that it simply does not pay to run gas stations there.

It has become far too expensive with the payment solutions that must be available to motorists, it says. Previously, it cost around 80,000 Danish kroner per year to keep a pump running. Now the price is up to more than DKK 300,000.

OKQ8 would rather spend the money on setting up charging stations, as they believe that electric cars are the future. Although no one can really know.

The energy company does not really have an answer to the fact that there will be longer intervals between the washrooms. Other than that they now refer motorists to the bigger cities.

Here at home, a small energy company is betting on the exact opposite of the Swedes. At the energy company Go On, they directly call the death of the petrol car 'exaggerated'. Read more about it here .

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