The text message bursts in every night, after 10pm. The recipient is the weakest link in the most powerful chain. Whether it is on the slopes of Esterzili or at the gates of Cagliari, in the heart of Nuoro or Oristano, or at the entrance to Sarroch, it doesn't matter. The army of gas station attendants, victims of an unassailable and inexorable oil illegal hiring, must submit without too many pleasantries to the orders of the sender, always the same, ever more powerful. To write those coded figures is the "corporal" of the oil, the one refined in unleaded petrol or diesel. He distributes the cards via whatsapp like a hidden and silent director, the one who dictates increases and decreases every night, who decides the strategies to blow up the bank and rake in unexpected gains. The guns are obviously all aimed at the "pump" that dispenses the finished product at service stations. The game is simple, the oil companies are behind the scenes, the gas station attendant becomes the front office, the screen of a billion-dollar business that exploits the weak and grinds, in the upper echelons, earnings of a thousand and one nights.
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For at least two years, governments have been making a fuss about allocating resources to "mitigate" the effects of expensive fuels, but no one really affects the causes, on that mega-speculation that is marking the economy of an entire country more than anywhere else. And after all petrol and diesel are the most horizontal mechanism, the one that spares no one, from farmers to fishermen, from artisans to transport companies, all affected at the heart of their productions. In the latest state budget, two thirds of the appropriations, over 20 billion, were destined to "pay" bills and price increases. In reality those appropriations, which could have been used to restart the economy, ended up in the coffers of those who conceived, conceived and implemented energy-oil speculation. A sort of round game: money for citizens and businesses to pay for the extra profits of the large state-owned multinationals, those that manage the large oil, refining, distribution and energy production pie. The illusion is that of giving money to families, the substance is quite different: the handrail is all too evident. A perverse mechanism, which is leaving an indelible mark on the economy, burdened by inflation directly linked to large-scale energy speculation. The subject is delicate. At stake are the powers that be, the powerful in energy, state lobbies and others, who have always been involved in the decision-making buildings. It is certainly easier to carry out spot checks on the "gas stations" rather than messing up that impregnable energy-oil chain that starts from the ends of the Universe up to the Italian and Sardinian refineries. Distant mechanisms, always covered by foreign-to-foreign operations, transactions carried out in tax havens, trying to evade tax controls and more, with gentlemen who call themselves "traders", in fact impalpable companies that buy and triangulate crude oil and gas from the highest bidder bypassing sanctions and bans. It is there that the bloodiest speculation lurks, the one that is not consumed in the cents linked to excise duties or various taxes. The speculative differential is all enclosed between the actual cost of oil and the cost of refining, the quantities stored and the management of stocks. Now that the Russian market is officially out of play for Europe, new speculative avenues have opened up precisely because that oil, that of Moscow, no longer arrives directly, but with triangulations, through "traders", perhaps they are positioned in Turkey, where it is permissible to buy Putin's oil and resell it as one's own at the gates of the Gulf of Angels.
