The price of gasoline rises again, the highest price increases since 2014

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September 21, 2021Hand in the wallet because the price of gasoline rises again and reaches the highest levels of the last seven years. According to the weekly surveys of the Ministry of Ecological Transition (acronym Mite), the average price of the green in self mode stood in the past week at 1.671 euros per liter, which is the highest level since the end of October 2014, when traveling in average at € 1.681.

The price of diesel also rose to 1,517 euros per liter. 

"The government must intervene not only on electricity and gas, but also on expensive gasoline, reducing excise duties on fuels. , consequently, on consumption. Petrol, reaching 1,671 euros per liter, reaches a record since 27 October 2014, that is almost 7 years ago, when it soared to 1681 euros per liter, while diesel, reaching 1,517 euros per liter, it reaches its maximum value since May 27, 2019, when it stood at 1,525 euros per liter ", comments Massimiliano Dona, president of the National Consumers Union. Since the beginning of the year, since the survey of 4 January, a 50-liter tank has increased by 11 euros and 46 cents for petrol and by 9 euros and 88 cents for diesel,with an increase of 15.9% and 15% respectively. On an annual basis it is equal to a sting per car equal to 275 euros per year for petrol and 237 euros for diesel "continues Dona." In one year, from the survey of 21 September 2020, when petrol was equal to 1,389 euros per liter and diesel at 1,267 euros per liter, a full tank of 50 liters costs 14 euros and 10 cents more for petrol and 12 euros and 46 cents more for diesel, with an increase of 20.3% respectively and 19.7%. An increase that is equivalent, on an annual basis, to267 euros per liter, a 50-liter tank costs 14 euros and 10 cents more for petrol and 12 euros and 46 cents more for diesel, with an increase of 20.3% and 19.7% respectively . An increase that is equivalent, on an annual basis, to267 euros per liter, a 50-liter tank costs 14 euros and 10 cents more for petrol and 12 euros and 46 cents more for diesel, with an increase of 20.3% and 19.7% respectively . An increase that is equivalent, on an annual basis, to

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Assoutenti, a non-profit association for the protection of consumers, also asks for government intervention against the expensive gasoline denouncing that: "The effects of the expensive gasoline for the community are getting heavier day by day, and only for refueling Italian families must take into account a total

 - says the president Furio Truzzi - A full tank of green costs today more than 14 euros more than last year, +12.5 euros a full tank of diesel. Numbers that are being reflected in retail prices, with inflation which in August underwent the highest growth since 2013 ". “We are in the presence of a real alarm on prices and tariffs, because the unstoppable rush of fuel prices will cause cascading increases in retail prices and an increase in costs for industries and businesses - continues Truzzi -. Not to mention the consequences on electricity and gas tariffs which risk recording record increases in October ”. "In the face of this scenario, the Draghi government must intervene, reducing the abnormal taxation that applies to fuel prices and cutting useless and anachronistic excise duties that only serve to increase the tax coffers,studying automatic mechanisms to limit the effects of expensive gasoline on the community already impoverished by Covid for a year and a half ”- concludes the president of Assoutenti. 

In a country like Italy where 85% of commercial transport takes place on the road, the new record in fuel prices has a snowball effect on spending with an increase in costs of transport as well as energy ones. This is what Coldiretti affirms on the effects of the jump in petrol and diesel prices. The increase is destined to

because if fuel prices rise, the purchasing power of Italians who have fewer resources to devote to consumption decreases, while costs for businesses increase. The

is also affected by the effects of fuel prices

where the costs of logistics come to affect up to 30 to 35% of the total costs for fruit and vegetables according to an analysis by Coldiretti on Ismea data. In these conditions it is important to identify green alternatives as envisaged by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Pnrr) on the Recovery plan drawn up by Coldiretti to develop bioenergy in Italy. '' But with the PNRR it is also necessary to act on Italy's structural delays and unlock all the infrastructures that would improve connections between the South and North of the country, but also with the rest of the world by sea and rail at high speed, with a network of hubs made up of airports, trains and cargo '' affirms the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini.