Excess profits from diesel and petrol sales in Germany amounted to EUR 46 million per day in September 2026.

Omissions

• The underlying Greenpeace figure refers to the FIRST HALF of September 2026 ('erste Septemberhälfte'), not to the full month of September as stated in the claim.
• The figure comes from a Greenpeace-commissioned study by an oil-market expert, not from official statistics; 'excess profit' (Übergewinn) is a modelled/contested concept rather than a measured accounting value.
• Greenpeace's own publication reports different daily figures for other periods (e.g. around EUR 21 million/day at the start of the Iran conflict), so the EUR 46 million figure is the highest of several values the same organisation has published.
• The specific figure could not be verified against a second independent source; it rests on a single (NGO-commissioned) source, so no independent corroboration was obtained.

Sources

• SecondaryGreenpeace Deutschland — 'Übergewinne der Ölkonzerne: Krieg im Iran, teure Benzinpreise'In der ersten Septemberhälfte lagen sie bei Benzin im Schnitt bei 14,5 Millionen Euro täglich, bei Diesel verdienten die Mineralölkonzerne durchschnittlich 31,7 [Millionen Euro täglich] (i.e. ~46.2 million EUR/day combined for the first half of September).