"In recent days, the hypothesis has emerged that the government can equate the excise duties on diesel with those on petrol thus raising them sharply by more than 10 cents per litre, going from 61.7 cents per liter to 72.8. It is one of the scenario, put down in black and white by the Structural Budget Plan, unjustifiable and extremely negative in particular for the world of road transport". This was highlighted by Cinzia Franchini, president of Ruote Libere - L'Autotrasporti, an association of freight transport on behalf of third parties, explaining that "it is in fact, it is evident that the rationale cannot be that of facilitating the energy transaction: in the increase in excise duties of the There is no environmental purpose but only and exclusively the desire to make ends meet for a maneuver which promises to be tears and blood".

"We understand," Franchini continued, "that the government has empty pockets, but the problem cannot be taken care of by in particular hauliers who, after having endured for several years a very high cost of fuel, benefiting in recent months from lower prices by virtue of the reduction of the cost of raw materials. A puff of vital oxygen that the government wants to suffocate, betraying moreover all the promises made by the political forces that support him in electoral campaign precisely on the cut in excise duties. Needless to say, finally, that this wicked choice would feed mechanisms of speculation in the intermediate processes of the supply chain, with an increase in of the products on the shelves that would be imputed instrumentally precisely because of the higher costs of transport, while we all know that companies in the sector would not have the strength to increase their transport tariffs".