“I used to pay 40, 43 euros in electricity bills every two months, now I’ve got one 261 euros and wait for the gas one. My wife and I earn around 2 thousand, 2,100 euros a month for two and I am lucky enough not to pay the mortgage because we live in a council house, but these costs are starting to weigh on the family budget. Compared to last year, my purchasing power has decreased, the bill affects my food expenditure ”. Michele Giglio is an activist of the Asia Usb union of San Basilio. He is one of the bills that burns in front of the headquarters of Casa Depositi e Prestiti (CdP), in Rome, in the garrison organized by the base unions and other associations to protest against the increase in energy costs that also falls on families.
According to the members of the basic union, the State should tax the extra profits of energy companies to calm the increase in bills, because the skyrocketing prices in recent months, destined to increase according to estimates by the ARERA (Regulatory Authority for energy networks and environment) are the result of speculative policies implemented by energy companies together with the main shareholders, including state-owned companies such as Cdp, “a state structure that has the majority of shares in Eni, Italgas, Snam and many others energy companies responsible for speculating the cost of raw materials that is causing the increase in bills ”, explains a Tpi Pierpaolo Leonardiof the confederal executive of Asia Us.
“We ask that these extra profits that have been made, which have already reached 40 billion, are requisitioned and used to control the cost of bills “, he claims. But according to the union, state-owned companies have shown that they want to keep the surplus generated by the energy crisis for themselves. “The incredible thing – continues Leonardi – is that these large state governments that earn more than 200 thousand euros a year each not only refused to distribute the extra profits but even resorted to the ridiculous 25 percent tax on extra profits introduced by Dragons. It is the state that opposes itself. We must stop linking the essential goods for people’s lives to the market, we think in terms of common goods that must be guaranteed to all. “, goes on.
And he ensures that, at this rate, from the symbolic bonfires of bills that are also multiplying in other cities of Italy, there will be insolvency. Not as an instrument of protest, but as a necessity. “For a large mass of people it will be the obligatory queue. We are here that we do not have the money to pay, if the situation does not change it will be a very hot autumn ”, he concludes. “If one pays 400 euros of gas and electricity and 600 of mortgage and then maybe even the condominium, the Ama and all the utilities that arrive on time and take 1,400 euros a month as does it do? – asks Gigi, another union activist – Does he get into debt, is funny, doesn’t he eat? You explain it to me ”.
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