The government intervenes forcefully on the alarm of electricity and gas bills which is bringing families to their knees.
Comes with the latest decree a price ceiling that will really make Italian families and businesses breathe.
As we know, in fact, Italian families are in extreme difficulty due to price increases and according to many observers on poverty many families are ending up below the poverty line just because of the bills.
Families are on their knees
Just think that in February even 4 million users have not been able to pay the terrible bills and consumer associations speak of a social bomb.
This is also why many Italians are asking the European Union for universal basic income by clicking on the appropriate online platform. But now it comes a government initiative that can be much more effective than bill bonuses disbursed to date. In fact, it is precisely in the famous energy decree that has recently been approved places of the roofs to the costs of electricity and gas. It will be precisely the regulatory authority for energy networks and the environment Arera that will be able to set the tariffs.
With the price ceiling, everything changes
The purpose is to neutralize speculation. The new government provision establishes that Arera will determine the tariffs in such a way that the operators cannot disengage from real prices and consequently they can no longer carry on speculations that inflate the cost to the end user even beyond real increases in raw materials. The difference can be really noticeable because it can affect up to 40%. It had been a long time that people asked for a ceiling on the price of electricity and gas because it is evident that many economic realities in the various steps they are applying price increases and speculations which are not justifiable on the basis of the real market prices of the raw material.
A substantial savings
Therefore the authority will be able to impose fairer prices and the cut on the bill can be really heavy. The suspicion is that speculations have had a huge impact on current bill costs of Italians and that by linking the price paid by the user to the actual price of raw materials, the savings may in some cases be as high as 40%. But when can we have this savings? Apparently it could come already from the bills for the next few months and for families and businesses it would be a breath of fresh air.
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