Bucharest drivers are crossing into Bulgaria for diesel — and coming back with money to spare

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Pump prices hit €2 a litre in Romania’s capital this week. Eighty kilometres south, they haven’t.

DIESEL has smashed through the €2-a-litre barrier in Bucharest this week — and furious drivers are voting with their feet, jumping in their cars and heading straight for Bulgaria.

Because here’s the thing nobody at the petrol station wants you to know: if you drive a 3.0 L diesel, fill up in Ruse just across the Danube, and drive back home, you arrive in Bucharest with MORE money in your pocket than if you’d never left.

Yes, really. We did the math.

The numbers that will make you spit out your coffee