Petrol and diesel, price cuts: Draghi’s measures. Roof on gas tariffs

Rome, March 14, 2022 – An immediate discount on the price of petrol and diesel. More time to pay gas and electricity bills in installments. A first aid package for companies in difficulty. And finally, a squeeze on exports of some raw materials. A price ceiling on the purchase of gas from abroad to calm the market is not excluded, even if we are pushing for a solution that involves the whole of the European Union. The government is running for cover to deal with the emergency. Already tomorrow – or Thursday at the latest – on the table of the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, a first decree could arrive with the most urgent measures. Waiting for the anti-price increases that will be agreed at the European level. After all, the alarm is getting louder. On the one hand, consumers and motorists, struggling with skyrocketing bills and fuel prices. On the other, companies, put on the ropes by the maxi increases in energy and raw materials. In between, the pressure of all political parties that ask for urgent measures to avoid social tensions. It is not just the huge increases in energy and raw materials that bring companies to their knees. There is also another phenomenon that is gaining momentum and concerns payments. There are no precise reports but, as it appears from several sources consulted, there are many suppliers who have not only retouched the price lists but ask for ever closer payments, practically upon delivery of the goods and no longer, as usually happens, in a period between 30 and 90 days from the issue of the invoice. Two, immediately, the fronts on which the executive intends to act. First of all, gas and petrol, to curb the surge in prices at the pump (which, yesterday, reached over 2.3 euros per liter, with diesel …