New records for the price of fuel at the distributor. Precisely in the vicinity of the departures of many for the holidays, gasoline flies at an average share of € 1.655 per liter while diesel oil registers an average price of € 1.513 per liter. The risk is of a maxi-sting on the pockets of families in the phase of the year in which there is a peak of movements towards the sea or the mountains. The complaint comes with force of the consumer associations.
The Codacons says it is ready for complaints to the Prosecutor against the continuous increases in fuel at the pump, which could determine the criminal case of stock manipulation pursuant to art. 501 of the penal code. The price rush is relentless which, according to Codacons, causes a steadily increasing sting, and which reaches +301 euros per family per year only due to the higher supply costs.
Meanwhile, yesterday oil prices fell by 7% on financial markets to rise again today over 69 dollars a barrel and partially recover the sharp decline of the day before on the increase in Opec + supplies.
“Today gasoline costs 17.9% more than in the same period last year, while diesel is up by + 17.3% – says Codacons -. Since the beginning of the year, the green has undergone a 14.8% increase in pump prices, diesel + 14.7%. Translated into a nutshell, a full tank of petrol today costs 12.5 euros more than in the same period of 2020, +11.1 euros a full tank of diesel ».
The National Consumers Union also denounces the increases. “Petrol, reaching 1,655 euros per liter, reaches the record since 29 October 2018 when it soared at the same amount, that is over 2 years and 8 months ago, while diesel fuel reached its maximum value from 3 June 2019, when it stood at 1,514. euro per liter, over two years and 1 month ago “recalls Massimiliano Dona, president of the National Consumers Union who adds:” In exactly one year, from the survey of 20 July 2020, when gasoline was equal to 1,405 euro per liter and the diesel at 1,291 euros per liter, a 50-liter tank costs 12 euros and 53 cents more for petrol and 11 euros and 10 cents more for diesel, with an increase of 17.8% and 17 respectively, 2%. An increase that is equivalent, on an annual basis, to a sting equal to 301 euros per year for petrol and 266 euros for diesel ”.