Bills, increased electricity and gas: in Cdm measures to avoid this

A measure to avoid the increase in bills, according to what is learned, should be tomorrow on the table of the Council of Ministers scheduled at 4 pm in Palazzo Chigi. The measure should not pass from a VAT cut, as claimed by rumors circulated in the last few hours, but from the stop to system charges. Price increases, the alarm launched by CingolaniA sounding the alarm on possible increases, in particular for the electricity bill, was precisely the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani who, for the next quarter, spoke of an increase of 40%. “Last quarter the electricity bill increased by 20%, this quarter it increased by 40”, said Cingolani in recent days, specifying that “the trend data on increases in energy costs have been known and monitored for some time by professionals. : changes in bills are established every quarter by the energy authority on the basis of the cost of raw materials such as gas and the cost of CO2 “.” The government – he later specified – is strongly committed to mitigating the costs of bills due to these international circumstances and to ensure that the transition to more sustainable energies is rapid and does not penalize families “.” Risk stinging from 1,300 euros per family “According to the associations Assoutenti and Movimento Consumatori, without interventions there would be a “total sting of almost 1,300 euros per year per family.” or a family with two children only for electricity and gas supplies. However, more expensive energy also translates into higher costs for industry, transport, retailers, and for the entire production and distribution system, with repercussions on retail prices and tariffs “, explain the consumer associations. Based on the calculations by Assoutenti and Movimento Consumatori, “a maxi increase in bills would cause indirect effects on retail price lists for a total of +768 euros per year per family, of which +140 euros only for food, and +174 euros for the transport item, bringing the overall account of the stinged to touch the 1,300 euros per household “. Against the rises that risk falling on the Italians, Assoutenti and Movimento Consumatori therefore call” the consumerist pact and all the consumer associations of the Cncu together, in order to organize a national protest that could result in the ‘consumer strike’, with citizens being invited not to shop for a day to protest against the increases in prices and tariffs that risk further impoverishing a large slice of the population, already brought to its knees by the Covid emergency “. The two associations also appeal to the Minister of Economy, Daniele Franco” so that the increases are absorbed by canceling the improper charges in the bill (anachronistic taxes and excise duties and the so-called system charges) and that of the ecological transition, Roberto Cingolani (to strengthen the self-production interventions of energy the so-called energy communities) so that they intervene urgently to avoid the maxi-increases in bills and operate on excessive taxation which applies to electricity and gas, starting with a significant cut in system charges which weigh over 10% on Italian bills “.