The protest of Sardinian gas stations: "Earnings reduced to the bone, we are on our knees"

From Gallura to the Golfo degli Angeli no gas station is saved .

In the end, the crisis exploded, to the sound of gasoline prices soaring beyond 2 euros , affecting the entire category of workers who at this rate will not hold up for long.

There are those who have been forced to interrupt their activities, to lay off employees or to cut tobacco bars and car washes housed in the service area at unsustainable costs.

In turmoil the Angac , born in Tramatza three years ago, which today gives a voice to a thousand gas stations throughout Italy (about 300 on the island). As the national president Giuseppe Balia , gas station attendant for 45 years in an Eni plant in Carbonia argues, "Sardinia was the forerunner in Italy of the protests of the managers against the oil companies that make good and bad weather , imposing not only the strict rules, but also the profit margin, just over 3 cents per liter. Negligible figures that have put a strain on management and many payrolls at risk ”.

On a thousand liters of fuel sold, the profit margin for the manager is 35 euros, on which all expenses are paid. An "unsustainable" situation also for Fiab-Confesercenti, in a period in which the expensive bills do not discount anyone .

Meanwhile, diesel travels between 1.8 and over two euros, more than petrol. And the regional president of Adiconsum, Giorgio Vargiu, and with him the other consumer associations, sound the survival alarm: "With these stellar tariffs , which have nothing to do with the war in Ukraine, they risk not being able to cope with the most weak: families, small and medium-sized enterprises, forced to increase the prices of their products ”.

(Unioneonline)