Oil prices, after the peaks of recent weeks, are decreasing day by day and the effects of the war between Russia and Ukraine are not yet really affecting international crude oil stocks, yet a full tank of petrol costs more and more and that of diesel, always cheaper due to less heavy excise duties, it has even surpassed the "green". And the protest of hauliers is staged throughout Sardinia.
If those who paid one euro and seventy per liter for diesel a few weeks ago now spend two and thirty five, and their transport rates remain unchanged, the gain is simply no longer there. 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 various points of Sardinia.
"Because we work without earning any more", snorts Piero Muscas of Pauli Arbarei at the Customs gate of the Cagliari port in via Roma. "And we have also increased additives for Euro 4 and surrounding engines by 170%", adds Antonello Marica from Sinnai, of the garrison at the port channel.
They will renew the authorization to demonstrate night after night, the furious truck drivers, and the one just passed they spent in front of the entrances of the airports. “To the bitter end, it is decided day by day”, they repeat.
THE SPECULATION - "We have been trying to sound the alarm for months, a speculation is underway that is going on undisturbed, weighing every day on the wallets of the Sardinians - says Giuseppe Balia, regional president of Angac, an association of autonomous fuel managers born precisely 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, that weaker than 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 ". In short, pointing the finger at the culprits of expensive fuels is not easy: "There are those who are certainly taking advantage - admits the teacher - the Arab oil-producing countries have in fact rejected requests to increase extractions, triggering an inevitable increase in prices ".
THE REGION - " The Region is close to the world of road hauliers and is ready to support their battle", reads an official note. "We have confirmed that we will be at their side to solicit an immediate response from the Government", add the councilors Alessandra Zedda and Giorgio Todde. Today they will meet the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Teresa Bellanova: it is hoped that the situation will be unlocked not only with an intervention by the Government on excise duties which always (and always) multiply the price of fuels, but also towards of oil companies.
(Unioneonline)
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