«A structural crisis cannot be managed with buffer interventions renewed every ten days. In September we will have to deal with a profoundly diversified market: only large companies will resist, while small ones are seriously at risk of closing». This was declared by the president of Confimprenditori Stefano Ruvolo.
«We believe that a fair price cap – he continues – should not exceed, today, 1.90 euros per liter for petrol and 1.95 euros for diesel. Above these thresholds, immediate and transparent checks must be carried out to ascertain the possible presence of unjustified margins and speculative phenomena.
We have been asking for a technical table with the trade associations for some time, continues Ruvolo, and this discussion has not been convened for some time. It is no longer acceptable that decisions on fuel are made without listening to those who suffer the direct impact of these increases on company budgets every day. If we do not intervene at the source, with a stable system and not with repeated extensions, the risk is a new inflationary spiral that affects salaries, purchasing power and internal consumption, also putting businesses and public finances under pressure. The Government must convene this table immediately: companies can no longer wait.”