Government at work on a system project against price increases
While the Guarantee Commission rejects it for road transport on Mondays, the sector is ready for protest. The trucks will stop due to the uncontrolled increase in petrol and diesel, which forced workers (and others) to use almost double the economic investment to fill up. The announcement of the strike, in recent days, had raised fears of the blockage of goods, especially food products, and fuel supplies, so much so that throughout Italy – also due to the alarm about possible further increases – we are still witnessing the rush to buy pasta, sugar, flour, oil and rice. And then lines of cars at the gas stations. And San Marino is no exception. In Italy, the government is working on the anti-crisis plan. First measures perhaps in the week. “We are not yet in a“ war economy ”, says the premier Mario Draghibut it is better to prepare “.
In San Marino the same repercussions. The relentless escalation of fuel prices is worrying, while counting on the lower tax differential: “diesel and petrol price policy that is not possible independently – recalls the Secretary of State for Finance, Marco Gatti -, due to the agreements required to maintain a certain alignment. However, I expect Italy to consider as soon as possible some intervention to which – he assures – we will immediately adapt ”.
On the energy front, closed by AAAS just two days before the war broke out in Ukraine, the contract with Enel for gas supply for the next six years at an affordable cost (50 euros per MWh), “Thus protecting the system from the supply side – notes the Secretary of State for Labor, Teodoro Lonfernini – It remains however the updates utility tariffs (stopped for 12 years), those already established with increases between 25% and 35% on an annual basis (it should however be noted that in Italy the same percentages have increased on a monthly basis). The problem must certainly be addressed – says Lonferni, announcing that a system projectan overall package of interventions, “against increasingly unsustainable increases”.
In the video the interview with Luigi Canini, gas station attendant.