Petrol, crazy prices: a full tank is a drain. The cut in excise duties is no longer enough

Rome, 10 June 2022 – A race without brakes. Filling up with petrol costs more and more. Yesterday, the super was back stably above two euros. To be precise, according to the data released yesterday with the usual survey by Quotidiano Energia on the basis of the data communicated by the managers to the Mise, 2,009 for self-service and 2,134 for served. Only self-service diesel remains below this threshold, € 1,924 per liter. Stop petrol and diesel cars, Italy is trembling But for the “served”, even the diesel has touched the threshold of two euros. In short, there is a new price alarm, close to the summer, when fuels are notoriously back under pressure. And without the embargo on Russian oil, which will only become operational from 2023. The truth is that the simple announcement was enough to trigger a new bullish spiral: yesterday Brent was trading at over $ 123 a barrel. So much so that, between Palazzo Chigi and the Ministry of Economy and Finance, a new measure is already being worked on to calm the price lists. For now there is nothing written, various hypotheses are being worked out and, above all, we are thinking of an overall package to be approved by the end of the month that will act both on the fuel front and on that of electricity and electricity bills. The most probable hypothesis is that there will be an extension of the cut in excise duties by 25 cents expiring on 8 July, a discount which, also considering the VAT, stands at 30.5 cents. Without this measure, the real pump price would have already exceeded 2.30 cents. Even net of the traditional increases expected during the summer exodus. A real blow to the budgets of the Italians. From the beginning of the war, just to give a yardstick, filling up already costs 5 …