"If analysts' forecasts were confirmed with an increase in gas tariffs of + 70% starting from October, for Italians it would be a maxi-sting of 2,942 euros on an annual basis per family only for expenditure related to supplies. of gas. This is because such a heavy price increase would lead to tariffs to rise in the last quarter of 2022 by + 117% compared to the same quarter of 2021, when the uninterrupted series of energy increases began ".
The president of Assoutenti, Furio Truzzi, explains in a note.
"The increases in gas prices would thus add up to those of electricity, whose tariffs rose in the last quarter by 122% on an annual basis, making energy expenditure increasingly unsustainable - continues Truzzi - For this we ask the new government to immediately adopt three measures that appear more urgent than ever to save the budgets of millions of families: the first is to arrange a "divorce" between gas prices and electricity prices, following the path of misalignment; the second is to block the detachments of energy supplies for the whole of 2023; the third is to align the end of the protected gas market, scheduled for January 2023, with that of electricity, scheduled for January 2024 ".
Finally, Assoutenti reminds us that on the subject of the energy crisis, the national assembly of all Italian consumer associations will be held on October 18, open to trade unions, businesses, retailers and third sector organizations, aimed at studying a unitary package of measures against expensive bills to be presented to the new government.