Italy: Petrol crisis, Salvini: we will evaluate intervention

“Tomorrow there is a CDM and we will discuss whether between war, expensive materials and expensive raw materials, it is the case to intervene and there is money to intervene”. Thus the Minister of Transport Salvini speaking of fuel price increases. “I’m happy – he added – that there are blanket checks, because even in this case, as in the case of gas and electricity, someone is taking advantage of them, because you can’t pay 1.70 euros for the same product in a city and 2.30 euros in another. It’s right to check and verify”.

“We’ll talk to the prime minister about excise duties. There’s certainly speculation going on about petrol and it’s good that Finance carries out checks”. Thus the Minister of Infrastructure Salvini underlining: “There cannot be distributors who sell petrol at 1.70 and others at 2.40. Obviously there is someone who is smart. I will bring the reasoning to the government level”. Then on the clashes between ultras on the A1: “Autostrada closed and Italian travelers blocked? Let them pay all the damages out of their own pockets, and never again in the stadium”. Fuel prices are rising sharply in Italy, as reported by consumer associations.

The Codacons analyzing the price lists communicated by the managers, registers record rates especially in some areas. In particular, skyrocketing prices on the motorway, where diesel is a whisker away from 2.5 euros per liter (2,479). Furthermore, according to the latest available data, on the island of Vulcano diesel fuel reached 2.349 euros per liter in served mode and 2.239 euros for petrol. In La Maddalena, Sardinia, petrol costs 2.087 euros and diesel costs 2.229, in Ischia a liter of petrol costs 2.054 euros and diesel costs 2.104.

“Fuel prices seem out of control, and after the halt to the cut in excise duties we are witnessing strong increases in price lists at the pump throughout the territory, the extent of which does not seem in any way justified by the trend in oil prices – says the president Carlo Rienzi – For this reason we have presented a complaint to 104 public prosecutors throughout Italy and to the Guardia di Finanza, asking them to investigate the prices of petrol and diesel in order to ascertain any speculation or unjustified price increases”.