It does not stop the expensive gasoline on the summer of the Italians: a new surge in the price of fuel has infuriated consumers and trade associations. The price of gasoline, in fact, has now returned to above two euros with a national average of 2,069 per liter. Diesel, on the other hand, costs only a little less and is around 2,006. Despite the measures launched by the government with the cut in excise duties, the “ceiling” of the two euros was broken: only a month ago, the controlled price touched values of 1.830 euros per liter for petrol and 1.835 for diesel.
Federconsumatori’s complaint
The Onf (National Observatory Federconsumatori) has calculated that there is an unjustified surcharge on fuels of at least 32 cents which, in a nutshell, translates into an average increase of € 384 per year for each family. Expensive fuel is causing an incredible ripple effect as more and more people are forced to deprive themselves of some kind of food spending. “A more incisive intervention is essential to counteract the speculations in progress, both on the internal market and on the international markets“, said the president of Federconsumatori, Michele Carruswho stressed that new measures are needed to curb the price increases “defining a ceiling on prices at distributors to define the VAT load at the net cost of fuels, no longer on the amount including excise duties“, as we read on The Nation.
An anomalous trend
Also on a war footing Codaconswhich invokes the interventions of the Antitrust and the Public Prosecutor’s Office to curb the gasoline price increases, “in order to ascertain who is speculating on the skin of the Italians“. A new complaint was presented to the Competition Authority and to 104 Public Prosecutors throughout Italy with the request to open an investigation into this new wave of increases to shed light on possible speculations and to arrange for seizures also to black gold companies . Compared to the same period last year, gasoline costs 25% more, diesel even 33% more. “A completely anomalous price trend, which is recorded despite the cut in excise duties ordered by the Government and which does not seem to be justified by oil prices“states the Codacons.
A ceiling on the price
According to Cgia (Associations of Artisans and Small Businesses), a maximum ceiling is required for the price of the pump to be implemented also for gas. “The excise duty cut decree, which by law reduced the price of petrol and diesel at the pump by 25 cents per liter, has now been largely ‘neutralized’; the increases, in fact, have now “incorporated” the discount“This is no small problem, given that on July 8 there will have to be an extension before the price takes off further.
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