Every morning gets worse: since the attack on Iran, those who can't help but use their cars, motorcycles, vans, and trucks wake up knowing that gasoline and diesel prices have skyrocketed again. With crude oil yesterday surpassing $120 a barrel, only to fall back below $100, Sardinia is certainly no exception: while the average regional self-service price at the end of February was €1.668 for a liter of gasoline and €1.721 for diesel, yesterday we were at €1.784 and €1.975 (respectively). In ten days of war in the Gulf, gasoline on the island has risen by 11.6 cents and diesel by 25.4. We are the eighth most expensive region in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy: due to distribution costs and our island location, we spend more on supplies than regions such as Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Veneto, and Tuscany.
Moving from average prices to reality, a stroll around the streets of Cagliari is enough to discover that at some service stations the psychological threshold of 2 euros for a litre of diesel has been exceeded: for example (and this is not an isolated case) at the Tamoil petrol station on Viale Trento, where yesterday the luminous display indicated 2.059 euros per litre (and 1.749 for premium).
"We're the first to be ashamed of these prices," swears Gabriella Ruggiu, regional president of FAIB, the trade association of petrol station owners affiliated with Confesercenti, and owner of a service station on the 131 DCN: "It's not our fault. We, the operators, are entrepreneurs, but second-rate."
Further details and insights can be found in Marco Noce's article, available on newsstands today and on the L'Unione Digital app.
