Diesel: record price in the last two years

Stinging on the full of families and businesses with diesel which has increased by 20.6%, recording the record prices of the last two years, with an upward shock that also involves gasoline (+ 18.6%) and even increased LPG by 30% with “a devastating impact on production costs, services and private and public transport”. This is what emerges from the analysis of the European Union of Cooperatives (Uecoop) on data from the Ministry of Ecological Transition in reference to the increase in pump prices which in some cases, on the motorway network, even reach two euros per liter. A situation, observes Uecoop, “which has serious repercussions on the balance sheets of companies with 85% of goods traveling by road and represents a brake on the relaunch of the country and on the work of companies and employment. A situation that also weighs on the system of Italian cooperative enterprises which – underlines Uecoop – can count on almost 80 thousand realities with over one million employees and a transversal presence in several production sectors and services, from logistics to tourism, from food to health. from school to shows “. In Italy, Uecoop notes, “the cost of fuels always follows very rapidly the increase in the world price of oil which has reached 84 dollars a barrel for Brent, while it does not retreat as quickly when prices fall”. Against the rise in fuel prices, Uecoop some “self-defense rules”, ranging from hunting at the best price to using self-service, from the search for “white pumps” not controlled by the big oil brands to departures with full done before enter the highway.