The “expensive fuel” is one of the topics of the moment, we cannot but talk about it. Everything increased, everywhere: from bread and pasta, to medicines, to the prices of pesticides, building products, wood, iron, etc …
Commuting to work is becoming a problem for many due to the skyrocketing prices of diesel and gasoline. The hauliers are ready to stop again, all over Italy.
Many are asking for a cut in excise duties: the total sum is 0.7284 euros / liter for petrol and 0.6174 euros / liter for diesel.
Here is the list of excise duties:
– Ethiopian War of 1935-1936: 1.90 lire (0.000981 euro);
– Suez crisis of 1956: 14 lire (0.00723 euros);
– Reconstruction after the 1963 Vajont disaster: 10 lire (0.00516 euros);
– Reconstruction after the 1966 Florence flood: 10 lire (0.00516 euros);
– Reconstruction after the 1968 Belice earthquake: 10 lire (0.00516 euros);
– Reconstruction after the 1976 Friuli earthquake: 99 lire (0.0511 euros);
– Reconstruction after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake: 75 lire (0.0387 euros);
– UN mission during the 1982 Lebanon war: 205 lire (0.106 euros);
– UN mission during the 1995 war in Bosnia: 22 lire (0.0114 euros);
– Renewal of the 2004 autoferrotranvieri contract: 0.02 euros;
– Purchase of ecological buses in 2005: 0.005 euros;
– 2009 earthquake emergency in Abruzzo: € 0.0051;
– Funding for culture in 2011: from 0.0071 to 0.0055 euros;
– Immigration management after the Libyan crisis of 2011: 0.04 euros;
– Liguria flood emergency e
