After the bills comes the expensive gasoline: “Bloodletting from 300 euros per family”

Fourteen euros more for a full tank of petrol compared to last year, a record increase of almost 20% and which will cost an average of 300 euros per family in 2021. Having escaped, at least in part, the blow on electricity and gas bills, the increase of which – which there will be – has been “calmed” by the intervention of the government, the drain on fuel prices is already making itself felt, with prices soaring skyrocketing and that have not been seen so high for at least 4-5 years now. The failure of the recent summit between OPEC countries to seek an agreement on increasing crude oil production is at the basis of this new surge in prices, also supported by the rise in oil prices, which has now returned to touch 80 dollars a barrel. . «The increases however – says Mina Busi, president of Adiconsum Bergamo – appear excessive and certainly not proportionate, if we refer to the periods in which the prices of raw materials fell. The government must intervene not only on electricity and gas, but also on expensive gasoline, reducing the excise duties on fuels which are always talked about in electoral campaigns, but which are then regularly forgotten ».

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