«The price of diesel could rise to as much as 2.3 euros per litre next weekend without further price cuts» .
Codacons is raising the alarm after Italian highway prices reached a "historic record" yesterday, and on the eve of the end of the 48-hour extension of the 17-cent excise duty cut decreed by Ministers Giorgetti and Pichetto Fratin. In Sardinia, yesterday the price of self-service diesel was €2.141 per liter and that of self-service gasoline was €2.022 per liter. This morning, the average price reported by the Ministry of Enterprise for the island rose to €2.146/liter for self-service diesel and €2.027/liter for self-service gasoline.
Many are therefore calling for decisive, non-provisional measures , such as the mini-extension that expires tomorrow, August 26, and which costs 20.8 million euros, compared to the previous August package which was worth 245 million.
The latest measure has been branded "a disgrace" by the National Consumers Union , while Confimprenditori calls it "a joke that's no longer funny." Codacons, on the other hand, calls it "a mockery of Italians."
According to CNA estimates , the energy bill that the war in Iran has imposed on Italy will amount to almost 12 billion euros in six months , including greater outlays for fuel, electricity and gas compared to the levels before the outbreak of the crisis.
For its part, the government is evaluating how to proceed, waiting to find out, as Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Pichetto Fratin said, "whether the Strait of Hormuz will open or not." But the opposition is attacking, with Democratic Party Secretary Elly Schlein reviving the proposal to tax energy companies' excess profits because "stopgap measures and temporary extensions are no longer enough" and "we need robust support measures that especially help the most vulnerable and vulnerable."
(Unioneonline)
