Eni Caps Fuel for Thirty Days, and the Valley Roads Count the Difference

Eni said on Friday it is setting a thirty-day fuel price cap, initially for thirty days, to take some of the sting out of recent price rises, according to The Local Italy. The measure is a commercial decision by Italy's largest energy provider rather than a government one, and it is time-limited by its own terms.

The same outlet reported the same week that its editor, after nearly a decade split between two Italian cities, had set out the everyday differences between north and south and why a lot of things do not change. Fuel is one of the things that does not change in the same way everywhere: the price at the pump is national and European, but the distance between a household and the services it needs is not.