The United States of America and Israel attack Iran.
The price of oil and gas rises due to fears of the significant negative impact of the war on trade and the supply of these resources.
Oil companies warn that the price of fuel will increase, despite the fact that they are now selling oil that was purchased several years ago.
The Government announces the reduction of part of taxes to mitigate the sharp rise in fuel prices.
The prices of diesel and gasoline rise anyway, even to values that go far beyond the direct impact that the war has on the international market.
A speculation operation is in sight in which oil companies use the war as a pretext to raise the price of fuel in order to increase the profits they earn, already at scandalous levels.
The European Council says it is concerned about the rise in energy and fuel prices. It orders the European Commission to study measures that mitigate the impacts of this price rise. The European Commission says it is necessary to review the taxes levied on fuel by Member States, identifying large discrepancies in the amount of tax revenue.
The Government and the European Union do not say a word about price control, pricing or fixing, nor about the end of liberalized market mechanisms that allow oil companies to set prices as they see fit. But they all want to convince us that they are taking care of us, that they are taking the appropriate measures to avoid greater evils than those already caused by increases in fuel prices to values that are unbearable for families, small and medium-sized companies and small producers.
They want to convince us that it is by reducing the State’s tax revenue in the taxes it charges on fuel that the problem will be solved, leaving untouched the power that oil companies have to impose prices as they want.
The government and the European Union admit to doing everything except what requires courage: facing the interests of economic groups in the energy sector to protect the interests of the people and the national economy. These great interests that imposed the liberalization of the energy sector, that imposed the privatization of public companies, that took away from the State the ability to intervene in a sector that is absolutely decisive and fundamental for any economy, including the prices that are charged.
As long as they refuse this intervention and limit themselves to talking about taxes in the face of each increase in fuel prices, the Government and the European Union will be directly responsible for the increase in the cost of living and the consequent degradation of the economic and social situation, for the degradation of people’s living conditions, for the difficulties that affect, in a devastating way, micro-small and medium-sized companies and national production.
Reducing taxes on fuel prices that keep increasing is pulling the wool over our eyes. What we need is control and price fixing and public control of the energy sector.
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