With Brent around 90 dollars a barrel, motorists are once again facing rising fuel prices. And prices have thus returned close to the highs recorded in the last four months of tension in the Middle East.
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At the pumps, where today national average values indicated 1.949 euros per liter for petrol and 2.124 euros for diesel, prices have increased in recent days, making people forget the slow but progressive reductions that had led the Government to interrupt the series of excise duty cuts, which cost two billion euros.
Diesel is rising
As always, diesel is increasing faster, thanks to a more rigid demand due to the use of fuel for both freight transport and activities such as fishing and agriculture (not by chance, funds in tax credits have been made available for the three sectors). In seven days, i.e., between Wednesday, July 15, and today, an increase of almost 11 cents per liter can be noted for diesel, double that of petrol.
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The records
The levels, as mentioned, have returned a step away from the highs, i.e., 1.968 euros per liter for petrol and 2.181 euros for diesel. For both fuels, however, the levels of March 18 have been exceeded, which is when the Government intervened for the first time with the excise duty cut. A measure that now, however, is not part of the Executive’s plans.
The territorial situations
Returning to the records, in some territories the thresholds have already been exceeded. In Sicily, yesterday a liter of diesel cost 2.158 euros, slightly less than in the Province of Bolzano (2.166 euros) which, in the “ranking” of the most expensive, has almost always been at the top. And in fact, moving to petrol, the locality of Alto Adige is still first (1.987 euros), followed by Sicily (1.969 euros) and Friuli Venezia Giulia (1.971 euros).
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