New app shows where you can find fuel in Hungary

In the last few weeks, many of us who tried to fill up our tanks faced the fact that numerous Hungarian petrol stations simply ran out of gas. The Hungarian energy giant MOL previously issued a statement that the reason behind the lack of imports was the government’s recently prolonged price cap. However, the price cap was abolished yesterday, despite that the shortage will remain with us for at least 4-6 weeks. But a newly launched app will help drivers navigate through the nationwide chaos. Search for benzinkut.info in Google to find the app. Below you can read the details.

Zsolt Hernádi, the CEO of Hungary’s oil and energy giant, MOL, and Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, held an extraordinary joint press conference yesterday announcing the end of the fuel price caps in Hungary. As a result, everybody has to pay the market price for fuel in Hungary from yesterday 11 pm.

MOL expressed several times that the fuel shortage of the previous weeks could only end if the import was restarted. However, that was not worth it while the price caps were in force. After the abolition of the measure, the market is supposed to recover, but this process will not happen from one day to the other. According to Mr Hernádi, normal supply is projected to return only by mid-January in Hungary.