Electricity and gas bills and expensive gasoline, costing 3 thousand euros per family

Dear electricity and gas bills, consumer associations warn: government measures are not enough against increases and increases and there will still be a sting. “The interventions approved yesterday by the government with the bill decree are completely insufficient to contain the new flare-up in electricity and gas tariffs and will not prevent both a further rise in energy costs for households and businesses, and a domino effect on retail prices. and on inflation “, Assoutenti affirms, who today calculates the possible impacts of the current economic situation on the pockets of families. “In recent months, the bills emergency has been joined by that relating to expensive gasoline, with fuel prices that today cost 24% more at the pump than last year and an increase in expenses, only for refueling, equal to +402 euros per family – explains the president Furio Truzzi – Retail prices are also undergoing very high increases, both as a consequence of the expensive bills, and as a result of the higher costs of raw materials, with inflation which in January is jumped to + 4.8% and higher spending from 1,480 euros per family (for a total of +38.5 billion euros) “.” Light, gas, petrol, retail prices and raw materials will cause a greater outlay only for consumers estimated, overall, at around 78.5 billion euros, and an increase in total expenditure of around 3.019 euros per family at the end of 2022 – continues Truzzi – In light of this situation, the measures approved by the government appear completely inadequate to deal with serious ongoing emergencies, e for this Assoutenti together with other consumer associations is preparing for protests and forms of legal struggle to protect the pockets of families ”, he concludes. Codacons expects new increases in electricity and gas tariffs to arrive starting next April. Codacons considers the 5.5 billion euros for families and businesses put in place yesterday by the government with the bill decree to be completely insufficient. “The measures approved yesterday will not be enough to avoid a new increase in bills on the occasion of the next tariff update – explains the president Carlo Rienzi – This is because the funds put in place in favor of families and businesses are completely insufficient, while the other measures of the bill decree will not produce effects in the short term “. “The sting for families and businesses caused by the energy emergency could thus reach 70 billion euros in 2022, with enormous repercussions on the consumption front and a tsunami on the economy. For this reason, and considering completely useless hashtags and campaigns on social networks that will not be able to change the current situation by an inch by only wasting users’ time, Codacons – he announces – together with other consumer associations is studying a legal protest through a possible national self-reduction of bills, as has already happened with enormous success over the years ’70 for the bills of the Sip “. But according to Massimiliano Dona, president of the National Consumers Union, “in this difficult time, families who are unable to pay their bills, unfortunately, can only ask for payments to be made in installments, as required by the Budget Law. We invite consumers not to self-reduced bills, an action that risks becoming a dangerous boomerang. These are things that were fashionable in the ’70s, half a century ago: other times and other rules”. “It is good to know that if you do not pay by the expiry of the invoice, unless you adhere to the installment plan provided for by the Budget Law, you only end up paying even heavier bills, burdened by interest on arrears plus expenses. You can even risk disconnecting the supply. In short, one would fall from the frying pan into the embers “continues Dona.” What the consumer can do, however, is to check whether their manager offers more favorable conditions “and” consumers can then protest by posting their appeal to Prime Minister Draghi on social networks with the hashtag #siamoinbolletta, a way to put pressure on the executive and obtain a greater allocation and, above all, destined for this quarter instead of the next “, concludes Dona. Despite yesterday the Draghi government approved a new 6 billion euro measure in order to mitigate the high bills, in the first half of this year households and businesses will in any case have to bear an increase of 33.8 billion euros. This is now calculated by the Cgia Studies Office. Compared to 20191, the the Mestre artisans association has estimated for the first half of this year an increase in the cost of electricity and gas bills of 44.8 billion euros, of which 15.4 for families and 29.4 for businesses And. If from the total amount (44.8 billion) we reverse the mitigation measures implemented with the 2022 Budget law (3.8 billion), those introduced in the decree to combat the energy price increases of last January 21 (1.7 billion) and the 5.5 billion approved yesterday (amount, the latter, net of aid disbursed to Regions and local authorities), the extra cost to be paid, is the conclusion of the CGIA, remains of 33.8 billion euro: 8.9 on the shoulders of families and 24.9 on those of companies.