The gas station attendants get angry again. The managers gathered in Fegica-Cisl and Faib-Confesercenti have announced a national demonstration against the energy giant Eni accused of obstructing the liberalizationsthat the Monti government wanted to include in the sector. A note from the two trade organizations reads the invitation to the executive of “rrestore legality: [the Government] recall Eni and immediately start a negotiating table, with the aim of obtaining a lowering of prices and to stop the forced expulsion from the sector of thousands of small businesses".
These are the requests of the gas station attendants who in the last month they have seen increases in the prices of petrol and diesel of the order of 6,5 cents per liter and 3,5 cents/litre respectively. Mainly the fault of ENI, the state-owned energy group which has increased its price lists "10 times on petrol and 8 times on diesel since the beginning of February".
“While the crisis bites and oil consumption falls, Eni – the leading oil company on the market, whose main shareholder is still firmly the State – on the one hand drags prices upwards and, on the other, sends a 'message' to Parliament and Government, guilty of having started the process of liberalization and opening up of the fuel market". This situation, in which petrol stations feel sidelined and replaced by self-service vending machines, is not tolerable. For this reason the managers have called a "national public demonstration on March 13th".
