The Government has done it again. Fiscal makeup to not bother speculators. While a growing number of governments are approving price caps or margin caps to curb the abusive increases that are occurring taking advantage of the war, especially in fuel, in Spain the Council of Ministers approves a tax cut.
A tax cut that will soon be absorbed by new increases that will be cheerfully applied by those businessmen who see that they continue to have absolute freedom to speculate. In fuels, where we have seen the most increases in recent days, what we are going to find is an average reduction of 30 cents per liter of diesel. In a diesel that has risen an average of 49 cents so far this month, with peaks reaching over one euro at some gas stations. This is not the solution to the problem.
This is not dialoguing with social agents. To us, at least, no one from within the Government has called us, neither from the PSOE, nor from Sumar. Neither the Ministry of Economy nor the Ministry of Consumer Affairs has called us.
This is not the solution to the problem. The only thing this is going to do is aggravate the problem, give wings to the speculator to continue doing whatever they want with prices. It has been sold to us, however, by Sumar, that they have convinced the PSOE to implement a margin control mechanism.
But controlling margins in the field of fuels does not mean setting caps on the margins of fuel prices. What is going to be done, simply, is to monitor how much is earned and that's it, there's nothing more. Prices can continue to be raised without problem.
There is no maximum margin that cannot be exceeded. This is an absolute rip-off for consumers. This is not going to bring us any joy to our pockets, but quite the opposite.