Malta’s journey to become an electric car nation seems to be going down a peculiar path, with fuel stations springing up all across the island. A revision to the fuel station policy has finally been unveiled, a year and five months after it was initially announced. However, it remains to be seen how many station applications will be approved until the policy is in place.

All of this seems all the more puzzling when considering that there are already 55 fuel pumps on an island that is just 27km long, not including the recently approved applications.

And with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat repeatedly calling for a drastic transformation to electric-cars, questions have to be asked whether he is just pandering to an international wave of environmentalism or simply completely unrealistic?

In one journey, one man took a photo of each one of the fuel pumps around the island… ironically needing to refuel just once in the 150km trip.

Here’s look at the 55 petrol stations around Malta, not even counting the couple of stations on Gozo, either.

1. Rabat

2. Rabat (just outside Mdina)

3. Rabat (limits of Mosta)

4. Mġarr

5. Mellieħa

6. Mellieħa

7. St Paul’s Bay

8. St Paul’s Bay

9. Burmarrad

10. Burmarrad

11. Għargħur

12. Naxxar

13. Lija

14. Mosta

15. Attard

16. Santa Venera

17. Attard

18. Qormi

19. Qormi

20. Qormi

21. Qormi

22. Qormi

23. Ħaż-Żebbug

24. Msida

25. Kappara

26. Swieqi

27. Swieqi

28. St Julian’s

29. Gżira

30. Gżira

31. Gżira

32. Gżira

33. Birkirkara

34. Birkirkara

35. Mrieħel

36. Msida

37. Msida

38. Floriana

39. Floriana

40. Ħamrun

41. Ħamrun

42. Marsa

43. Marsa

44. Marsa

45. Paola

46. Żabbar

47. Żabbar

48. Fgura

49. Żejtun

50. Żejtun

51. Birżebbuga

52. Luqa

53. Luqa

54. Żurrieq

55. Siġġiewi

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