Gas, Tap cools prices by 10% but Emiliano never apologizes?

One year after its entry into operation, the Tap – as Il Sole 24 Ore punctually informs – brought 7,5 billion cubic meters of Azeri gas to Italy and there saved 10% on wholesale gas prices which have literally taken flight these days. It is the manager director of Tap, Luca Schieppati who tells us: thanks to the new methane pipeline that brings gas from Azerbaijan to Puglia from where it is sorted into the large national methane pipelines, in 2021 we had secure supplies and controlled prices.

Obviously, it's not enough to solve the gas emergency, which we hope is only temporary, but it's great news that ridicules the doomsayers who didn't believe in the goodness of Tap or who even fought against it for years. Among these, how can we fail to include the ineffable Tsar of Puglia, Michele Emiliano, whose epic battles against the Tap are remembered except for the cunning twists and turns of the last hour when he understood that the air was changing?

For years the Tap was for Emiliano, a disaster to be avoided at any cost (memorable his No Tap rallies together with operetta Che Guevara, Alessandro Di Battista), and again in January 2020, according to what La Repubblica wrote, the Governor of Puglia threatened to ask for billionaire compensation from the managers of Tap, Saipem and to all the Salento companies involved in the construction of the work. Then in September 2020, a few days before the regional elections, conversion on the road to Damascus who in reference to the need for gas for Ilva in Taranto, for Puglia and for the whole of Italy wondered where it could come from and replied as follows: "From the Tap gas pipeline: let's hope it arrives because someone says that that gas in Azerbaijan is finished. Otherwise we'll take it from the Eni fields facing the sea of ​​Egypt”. In short, full revaluation of the Tap, the new methane pipeline that brings Azeri gas extracted from the Caspian Sea to Puglia and then crosses Bulgaria, Greece and Albania before arriving in Italy.

Here, however, a political problem arises, or rather two arise. But what credibility can a Governor ever have who, to collect a few votes from the No Taps, is ready to embark on the wildest demagogic campaigns (how can we forget those on Ilva and xylella too?) except clamorous reverses a few days before the elections? And what about the accomplice drowsiness of the national Democratic Party who - with the intermediation of the nonchalant ex-minister Francesco Boccia, once a Lettian and now a follower of the Apulian governor - always turns a blind eye to Emiliano's somersaults and unscrupulous campaigns (what about his support, reciprocated, for a mayor openly right-wing and considered a "friend of Casa Pound" like the mayor of Nardò, Pippi Mellone?). Not to mention the conformism which, with rare exceptions, chloroforms the media in front of the Tsar of Puglia: anything but a straight back.

Given the results of the first year of the Tap, it would not be decent for Emiliano to admit he was wrong e apologized publicly to the Apulians and the Italians and that the Democratic Party would do it together with him, which is still his party? Naturally the Five Stars should do it too, but those are now a mad variable of Italian politics to which only the Democratic Party still gives credit, making many historical leaders of the left turn in their graves.