Fuels, prices and increases: “Risk of freezing on Christmas consumption”

The wave of price increases in the fuel sector continues, with skyrocketing prices and the new Mise surveys released a little while ago that set the average price of petrol at 1,749 euros per liter, and diesel fuel reaches 1,613 euros / liter. A relentless growth that, according to Assoutenti, risks causing a “freeze” on Christmas consumption, leading families to cut spending for the upcoming holidays. “We are in the presence of a real emergency, because the increases in fuel prices have negative effects on the entire economic system – explains the president Furio Truzzi – In addition to aggravating Italians’ spending on refueling, the cost of petrol determines greater costs for industries and businesses, causes increases in retail prices and has repercussions on inflation. Households and production activities are so crushed by the escalation of gasoline and diesel prices, and government intervention is necessary because, without measures to contain price growth, the purchasing power of citizens will suffer a severe backlash and the consequences will they will make a direct impact on Christmas consumption, which could suffer a drastic cut. “” It is therefore necessary to intervene on the taxation that applies to fuels, cutting VAT and excise duties in order to contain the growth in price lists and limit the indirect effects of expensive gasoline on the prices of the products transported and on the costs for industry and businesses ”concludes Truzzi.