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Morning edition · Friday, 6 November 2026

ORDINARY · DESK NOTE

Ordinary Ledger: €1.974 for E10 and €2.212 for diesel, before the day gets busy

Friday's early national averages are a few cents below this week's midweek prints. A tankful is still a three-figure bill.

Ordinary & Inherited Life Dr. Benjamin Koch / The Desk 2 min read2 sources

The ledger. - Super E10, national average of open stations reporting to the federal price register this morning: €1.974 a litre1. - Diesel: €2.212 a litre1. - Super E5: €2.029 a litre1. - Midweek comparison: on Wednesday the ADAC put the national E10 average at €2.041 and diesel at €2.260, both lower than a week earlier2. - Desk arithmetic: a 50-litre tank of E10 at this morning’s average costs about €98.70; the same tank of diesel about €110.60. Against Wednesday’s ADAC averages that is roughly €3.35 less for E10 and €2.40 less for diesel, if the early print holds.

Early-morning averages are snapshots. Prices move by station, brand and hour, and they often firm after midday1. Brent’s slide earlier this week is the wholesale backdrop; the pump is where it either arrives or does not2. Nothing here is advice about when to fill up — only a record of what the register showed before breakfast.

What to watch

  • The usual midday rise around 12:00; early-morning averages often look kinder than the afternoon1.
  • Whether Brent's midweek slide keeps feeding through at the pump after the temporary fuel-tax cut, which runs to year-end2.
Desk comment

An average is a map. Your station is a place.

Sources

  1. Spritpreise heute (06.11.2026): Durchschnitt E5, E10 und Diesel in Deutschland (source: MTS-K) — kraftstoffbilliger.de, as of 06 Nov 2026, 05:20 CET.
  2. Kraftstoffpreise: Rückgang bei Benzin und Diesel — ADAC, 04 Nov 2026.

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