Second day of protest by hauliers against expensive fuel. The heavy vehicles remained in the positions occupied yesterday in front of the island's ports and industrial areas.
"Others will also be added - explains Annamaria Schirru, one of the representatives of the mobilization - let's not give up: we are waiting for news from Rome". Where the State-Regions Conference will be held.
As fuel prices rise, the gain is simply gone. For this reason, Sardinian truck drivers guard the ports (the two Cagliari-based, Olbia and Porto Torres) to block goods, cross and slow down the Carlo Felice, organize garrisons in different points of Sardinia: a peaceful protest that for the moment does not create inconvenience to supplies. in supermarkets. Which obviously could change if it were to go on for a long time.
"We have been trying to sound the alarm for months, speculation is underway that is going on undisturbed, weighing every day on Sardinians' wallets - says Giuseppe Balia, regional president of Angac, an association of autonomous fuel managers born in Sardinia and extended to all of Italy to stem the overwhelming power of large companies. - It is not difficult to understand, speculation is made by those who own the product, not those who distribute it to the consumer. We are only the last link, the weakest one, of the chain ".
For Vittorio Pelligra, professor of economic policy at the University of Cagliari, “inflation was actually increasing even before the fuel controversy broke out, but certainly the Russian-Ukrainian war has accelerated the surge in prices. On the other hand, the absolute uncertainty that the conflict has created could only upset the financial markets that move precisely on the basis of expectations about the future. Expectations today are not rosy ". "There are those who are certainly taking advantage of it - admits the teacher - the Arab oil-producing countries have in fact rejected requests to increase extractions, triggering an inevitable increase in prices".
(Unioneonline / D)