The expensive petrol agitates the government and the majority. Everyone is aware of the seriousness of the problem affecting citizens: the frequent exceeding of the threshold, not only psychological, of two euros per litre, is a worrying alarm bell.

Giorgia Meloni meets the heads of the Guardia di Finanza and launches new rules on the transparency of fuel distributors to block speculation. An ad hoc decree for price monitoring that will no longer be weekly but daily: the obligation to display the price at the pump is introduced with penalties that could be imposed by the prefect . The new measures provide for another regulation to set a ceiling on increases in the cost of fuel on the motorways .

Among other things, the managers will have to display signs indicating the national average price established by the Ministry of the Environment. However, differences emerge in the center-right as to what is the right recipe for getting out of this situation. And not only that: different views on the causes of the problem itself are also emerging.

The prime minister and the League are convinced that the increases are the result of speculation: and for this reason the intervention on market transparency for the benefit of consumers was examined and approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers. Forza Italia thinks that the problem is not caused by the dealers' greed but by excise duties, the cut of which has not been extended in the maneuver . "On fuels - underlines the group leader Alessandro Cattaneo - in our opinion, there is no speculation underway, but certainly there is a theme linked to prices, which we must face".

(Unioneonline)

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