The tension rises with the fuel price lists. Yes, because to the anger of Sardinian truck drivers, now ready to cross their arms on Monday to protest against the high cost of living that has caused the costs of diesel, maritime transport and vehicle maintenance to soar, there has also been that of motorists, more and more incredulous every day. and powerless in the face of the surge recorded in a few days from the expense of a full tank of fuel.

The "prophecy" made a short time ago by petrol stations begins to come true: "Diesel will cost as much as" green "and a liter of petrol will soon reach three euros", said Giuseppe Balia, Sardinian leader of Angac, the Association of fuel managers not knowing that just yesterday in many service stations the price of diesel fuel reached and exceeded that of petrol.

The wrath of the truckers

Meanwhile, the Sardinian truck drivers are pulling straight towards the indefinite lockout scheduled for Monday and aim to expand membership to as many companies as possible, anticipating the national mobilization organized beyond the Tyrrhenian Sea on March 19. "We want to make as much noise as possible and we ask that politics listen to us, but we also intend to act in compliance with the rules," said Gabriele Frongia, one of the leaders of the mobilization who gathered about three hundred people in Tramatza on Wednesday, all ready to stop the means starting next week with principals in the main ports of the island. "We have notified the prefectures and had an interlocutory meeting with representatives of the Region, but our protest wants to reach Rome, to convince the Government to immediately cut the excise duties on fuels".

Long lines

However, the truck drivers took a first result home: the announcement circulated Wednesday afternoon of an indefinite blockade of goods ignited the Sardinians' fear of soon running out of food and fuel. Long queues until yesterday were registered almost everywhere on the island in front of markets and petrol stations. A real mass psychosis.

In Ogliastra, most of the service stations sold the diesel fuel that they usually dispense in four days in 24 hours. The race to the column began in the late afternoon of Wednesday and continued non-stop even during the night with the self service. So much so that, yesterday morning, the owners of the Fiamma 2000 plant in Girasole found themselves without supplies. Same situation in Lotzorai, at the Q8 stations of Tortolì and Lanusei. The reasons for the race? "Most customers fear that there will be a gas station strike but it is absolutely not expected", explained Andrea Nieddu, owner of the Q8 in via Garibaldi, in Tortolì.

The phony chat messages have also affected food distribution stores. «No alarm, the supplies are insured. There was no crowd here, ”said Franco Tegas, one of the owners of the Conad point in Tortolì.

Same scenes in Sulcis, where the scenes in front of supermarkets brought to mind what happened two years ago with the first lockdown from Covid. In Carbonia, hundreds of people, especially the elderly, stormed the shops and service areas early in the morning. In some cases, fifty-meter lines to enter the markets or access the green or diesel dispensers.

Also in Iglesias the assault started from the early hours of the morning: the petrol stations registered queues worthy of a Ferragostan eve threatened by an imminent lockout of the pumps and the supermarket shelves were raided. Flour and water basic necessities disappeared from the shelves first.

(Unioneonline)

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