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The daily census by the Ministry of Enterprises, yesterday morning, reported that diesel at self-service stations away from highways cost on average 2.082 cents per liter.
This is 18.3 cents more than on July 4, when the Government had put an end to the last round of temporary excise tax discounts.
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The average price on July 18 yesterday is 10.2 cents below the mid-April highs, but only 2.1 cents lower than the levels recorded on March 18, when the Council of Ministers met in the afternoon to activate the first tax cut at the pump.
As always, the average reflects different regional situations, all quite close to each other: the most expensive diesel is found at the extremes of Italy, in Bolzano (€2.119 per liter) and Sicily (€2.118), and only three regions (Marche, Lazio, and Umbria) are below €2.07.
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