(Tiper Stock Exchange) – Strike by petrol stations confirmed for 25 and 26 January 2023. The two associations of the sector Fegica and Figisc Confcommercio, joining the FaibConfesercenti, after having frozen the mobilization, have now confirmed the strike, expressing themselves negatively on the transparency decree in the part relating to sanctions that call for gas stations. These – it is emphasized – are “disproportionate“because six thousand euros is equivalent to selling 180 thousand liters of petrolequal to six tankers, one week of workbut the sanction can also lead to the termination of the contract and the request for damages by the oil company and therefore the closure of the distribution company and this “cannot be accepted”.
“The government’s blame game continues on expensive fuel”protest Robert DiVincenzopresident of Fegica, together with the national president of Figisc Bruno Bearziwho anticipates “if tomorrow in the meeting at Mimit the decree does not start again, the strike will be confirmed”.
The MIMIT – Ministry of Industry and Made in Italy he had already summoned the managers earlier to address the problems of the supply chain, but after the “botched” transparency decree and the investigation by the Antitrust “which would investigate the oil companies not for their possible responsibilities but because they would not have supervised the petrol stations”, the two employers’ associations of the sector have considered to have to restart from the offending decreebecause – it is claimed – it gives public opinion “a message that we don’t like” which says that “we are not correct”.
The meeting scheduled for tomorrow to the Ministry of Made in Italy Enterprises, according to Di Vincenzo, “certainly not born under the best auspicesnor does it put us in a serene frame of mind.”
For the Fegica “it’s a serious situation, if it weren’t ridiculous”, because the Government “cannot say today that the managers have behaved correctly and tomorrow evoke the intervention of the Gdf and the Agcm”.
brother, the Antitrust has launched investigations after the inspections against some oil companies – Eni, Esso, IP, Kuwait Petroleum Italia and Tamoil- and after having found irregularities for applying to the pump a different price than advertised and for the failure to communicate fuel prices to the “Osservaprezzi fuel” portal. òìAuthority spoke of u “lack of care” by the oil companies in distributor checks and in the adoption of suitable measures or initiatives to prevent and contrast this illegal conduct to the detriment of consumers.
The proceedings were also initiated on the basis of the documentation promptly provided by the Guardia di Finanza regarding the ascertained infringements on fuel prices charged by over a thousand petrol stations (Eni 376 brand, Esso 40 brand, Ip 383 brand, Kuwait 175 brand, Tamoil 48).
If on the one hand you hear offers from the distributors’ associations, on the other consumer associations protest against the strikejudging the catch “incomprehensible” and remembering that “it will end up harming only the citizens”. “Denouncing the anomalies that are recorded in fuel prices is not throwing mud on the category – it is stated – just as it is not an insult to ask for more transparency in favor of consumers, and the same petrol stations could benefit from the measures envisaged by the Government decree”.