Business association Confimprenditori is calling for a maximum price on road fuels: €1.90 per litre for petrol and €1.95 per litre for diesel. The proposal, reported by IrpiniaNews and NapoliNetwork, was presented during a mobilization in front of Parliament, with the participation of the association's Avellino president, Gerardo Santoli.
The request combines commercial initiatives and fiscal tools. According to the reports, the association points to a mix of company-led promotions, a cut in excise duties, and so-called mobile excises that would adjust taxation as international prices move.
What the proposal would do
The core of the proposal is simple:
- petrol: maximum of €1.90 per litre
- diesel: maximum of €1.95 per litre
- tools indicated: commercial initiatives, excise reduction, and mobile excises
The sources do not specify how the cap would be applied in practice, nor who would cover any difference between the market price and the proposed ceiling. There is also no documented response from the Government in the acquired sources — whether it has accepted, rejected, or formally examined the proposal is not recorded.
Why Avellino was in Rome
The Avellino link is direct. Gerardo Santoli, president of Confimprenditori Avellino, took part in the mobilization before Parliament where the national proposal was presented.
The local reports frame the initiative as a national economic measure, presented by a national association with visible participation from its Irpinia branch, rather than as a measure limited to Campania.
The 2012 precedent: "Riparti con Eni"
To support its case, Confimprenditori cites Eni's 2012 "Riparti con Eni" campaign as a model.
According to the reconstruction reported by NapoliNetwork, that campaign lowered diesel to €1.50 per litre and petrol to €1.60 per litre at weekends. The same reconstruction estimates total savings of between €250 and €300 million in less than three months, with a 3.5–4.5% reduction in average prices.
Those estimates come from the reported reconstruction and are not corroborated by an institutional source in the acquired research. They describe a temporary weekend promotion, not a permanent regulated cap of the kind now proposed.
Prices today: the benchmark
The Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) publishes national average fuel prices. In its update of 23 September 2026:
- ordinary road network, self-service: petrol at €2.155 per litre, diesel at €2.340 per litre
- motorway network, self-service: petrol at €2.245 per litre, diesel at €2.418 per litre
The research notes that these MIMIT averages may not be directly comparable to the proposed cap, because the cap could refer to different conditions and instruments. They are published here as a current market benchmark, not as proof of what drivers pay at any single station in Avellino or Irpinia.
What remains unclear
Three practical questions are left open by the sources:
- Legal form: would the €1.90 / €1.95 thresholds be a regulated ceiling, a subsidized price, or a target achieved through tax and commercial measures?
- Funding: if market prices remain above the thresholds, who bears the gap — the state through lower excise revenue, fuel companies through margins, or a combination?
- Duration and scope: would the measure apply nationwide, to all distribution networks, and for a fixed period?
Until those points are clarified, the proposal remains a political request presented in front of Parliament, anchored to a historical promotion and to current official price surveys, but without a published implementation plan.
