Even higher prices for Italian motorists.
While in Great Britain a quarter of distributors are dry due to the crisis in fuel distribution due to the lack of hauliers who have left the United Kingdom after Brexit, in our country - but the problem actually affects the whole of Europe - prices they continue to rise due to the recent increases in the price of oil and the prices of refined products in the Mediterranean.
A trend that is also the result of the decision of OPEC + - the Organization of the main oil exporting countries - to increase the production of crude oil "only" by 400 thousand barrels per day in November, despite the much greater increase in demand. , due to the post-Covid global economic recovery.
According to the findings of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, last week the average price of gasoline in self mode increased by 1.05 cents and is now equal to 1.687 euros per liter.
Maxi-increase also for diesel, which rose by 1.3 cents to 1,537 euros per liter.
According to Codacons' calculations, the increases in gasoline will produce an increase in expenditure, only for refueling, equal to +357 euros per year per family, while those of diesel of 328 euros per year.
"Gasoline continues to increase and today costs 17% more than at the beginning of the year, and + 21.4% compared to the same period of 2020", explained the president of the consumer association Carlo Rienzi, " this means that a full of green costs today +12.2 euros compared to the beginning of the year, +15 euros over 2020 ”.
Only two weeks ago, gasoline had reached its maximum in seven years (October 2014), with the price in self mode amounting to 1,670 euros.
And it is no better for those who had chosen a methane plant, with the hope of saving money and polluting less.
With the increases triggered since October 1st, which reflect the upward push of the main raw materials and the greater demand from Asian countries that are setting aside the use of coal, natural gas at the distributor has come to touch in some distributors in central Italy the two euros per kilo (in Tuscany 2.2 euros).
In general, the average price is high compared to previous months, between 1.157 and 1.631 euros per kilo.
For LPG, on the other hand, it is necessary to spend from 0.724 to 0.745 euros per liter, with considerable variations depending on the brand.
And the trend does not seem destined to stop. The forecasts of Federmetano, the association that brings together more than one hundred operators in the sector, are not at all positive and do not hypothesize a reduction in costs until April 2022.
Since these increases are also compounded by those of electricity and gas bills, which will only be partially offset by the ad hoc decree approved by the Draghi government (designed to safeguard large families with low Isee), some analysts argue that we are on the verge of a real energy crisis.
(Unioneonline / F)