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Urso: convene companies on 9 April, adjust fuel prices immediately

If the newly announced agreement on the conflict has resulted in a 'significant and immediate' reduction in the cost of international gas, this price reduction must also be seen immediately in the national distribution network

by Rome Editorial Staff

8 April 2026

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"I have convened tomorrow afternoon (Thursday 9 April, ndr) the four big fuel distribution companies so that there is an understanding that the price adjustment must be immediate.

This was stated by the Minister of Enterprise, Adolfo Urso, at a press conference at Mimit, answering a question on the consequences of the truce in the Middle East on the prices of diesel and petrol.

If the newly announced agreement on the conflict has resulted in a 'significant and immediate' reduction in the cost of international gas, this price reduction must also be seen immediately in the national distribution network, Urso adds.

Cooperative Alliance: insufficient measures so far

"The cost of fuel, permanently over EUR 2 per litre with dynamics increasingly disconnected from objective factors, is bringing haulage to its knees.

Fuel weighs between 30% and 35% of operating costs: the current increase completely wipes out margins. The measures taken so far are inadequate: excise duty reductions of very limited duration, an inadequate 100 million fund, reimbursements with timeframes of up to 60 days incompatible with liquidity needs'.

This was reiterated today by the Alliance of Cooperatives during a hearing in the Senate. The Alliance calls for 'a tax credit of 200 euros per thousand litres of commercial diesel to guarantee the invariance of the benefits already recognised to the sector; the extension of the extraordinary contribution to alternative fuels such as Hvo; the immediate use of the excise refund credit without waiting 60 days; the temporary suspension of tax and contribution payments. Passenger transport - LPT, school, tourism - and companies in the environmental hygiene sector, exposed to the same identical cost increases, must also be included among the beneficiaries'.

Assoutenti, on the motorway, special diesel is close to 3.2 euro per litre

On the motorway the price of special diesel reaches a new national record reaching almost 3.2 euro per litre.

This is stated by Assoutenti, which also points out that in many motorway facilities, self-service diesel now costs over 2.4 euro per litre.

In particularon the A20 Messina-Palermo motorway today 'Hi-Q Diesel' is sold at 3.184 euro per litre, while on the A22 Brennero-Modena 'Supreme diesel' costs 3.079 euro per litre, says Assoutenti on the basis of data communicated by the operators to Mimit.

But even normal diesel in self-service mode, i.e. the cheaper one, is now costing more than EUR 2.4 per litre on many motorway stretches due to the price hikes at the pump, with peaks of EUR 2.439 per litre on the A14 and A16, EUR 2.429 per litre on the A8, EUR 2.428 per litre on the A3, EUR 2.419 per litre on the A4, EUR 2.409 per litre on the A10, A12, A27 and A30.

"With quotas

Le violazioni sui prezzi dei carburanti, il decreto bollette e la sanità integrativa

ith oil prices dropping below USD 92 per barrel today, we expect a general reduction in pump prices starting tomorrow. - says President Gabriele Melluso - If this does not happen, we will be faced with blatant proof of the speculation that takes place in the formation of fuel prices, and we will call for the immediate intervention of the Antitrust Authority and Mr. Prezzi so that they intervene to punish any wrongdoing.