Some diesel coupon books distributed after shortage

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AAFES gas coupons have been extended to Nov. 30, past their normal Sept. 30 expiration date.


Some diesel coupon books distributed after shortage
By Charlie Coon, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Thursday, October 11, 2007


STUTTGART, Germany — New coupon booklets for diesel fuel were delivered this week to many shoppettes throughout Germany, but not before some stores ran out prior to the long Columbus Day weekend.

Fuel coupons that expired on Sept. 30 are supposed to be accepted through Nov. 30 by Esso stations in Germany as well as Aral stations alongside autobahns, according to a spokesman for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service.

Customers who want to buy booklets for unleaded and super-unleaded fuel with coupons good through Sept. 30, 2008, should be able to do so by the end of the month, according to a spokesman for Army and Air Force Exchange Service.

AAFES spokesman Lt. Col. David Konop said Wednesday he had heard of only one instance of a customer not being able to use the expired coupons at a German station.

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Eligible Department of Defense employees buy the coupon booklets on U.S. installations, and then use the coupons to pay for fuel at much-cheaper U.S. prices at select stations on the German economy.

Diesel fuel, for example, last weekend cost about $3.23 per gallon using AAFES coupons. The price at the pump was 1.16 euro per liter, or about $6.26 per gallon.


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uhc comment: We dumbed down the COLA and now we're dumbing down soldier's ability to fill up. $3.23 per gallon for diesel is less than $6.26 per gallon, but it's still more than the corner gas station here that charges $2.799.

If you want parity to what we're paying here in the states, what's wrong with $2.799 for a gallon of diesel? Who gets the extra $$$$$?


Esso is owned by Exxon & Aral is now owned by OMV. Google turned up this little notice on OMV:

http://www.cbw.cz/phprs/2005121919.html

EC to rule on takeover of Aral petrol stations
By: Martina Marečková, 19. 12. 2005, More by this author

Thursday, Dec. 22

The European Commission is slated to decide on the planned takeover of Aral gas stations in the Czech Republic by Austria's oil and gas group OMV. On Oct. 6, OMV announced it had acquired Aral’s 70 gas stations in the Czech Republic from the Czech unit of Britain's BP. The transaction increased OMV’s number of stations from 146 to 216, making it the leader in the number of stations owned. The price of the deal was not disclosed. OMV’s acquisition of Aral’s stations is in line with its growth strategy, in which the group seeks to double in size, generate a 13 percent return on investment and increase its Central and Eastern European market share from 13 percent to 20 percent by 2008.


Looks like another Mission Accomplished!