The new day in Calabria always dawns with that same anguished lament of prices at the distributor that grow and generate discontent. According to the Observatory of the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy, yesterday, self-service diesel exceeded, on average, 2.043 euros per litre, with increases of more than a cent in just 24 hours. But the average figure only tells part of the human story. In some filling stations, peaks are recorded that are much higher than the regional average. In the Vibonese area, for example, diesel reached 2.239 euros.
The gap opens and closes from distributor to distributor, from sign to sign, from coast to hinterland. Fluctuations of a few cents, of course, which in a land where the car is not an option but a necessity end up becoming a social problem. Over the course of a week, a fifty-litre tank of diesel costs up to twenty euros more. And the scratch appears even deeper if you look back a few days: on February 28, when American and Israeli planes began bombing Iran, energy prices began to shoot upwards. Diesel, at the pump, was still paying 1.679 euros per litre. In just over a week, therefore, the increase exceeded 40 cents, in some cases even touching fifty.
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