PN launches 'fuel robbery calculator'

The Nationalist Party this afternoon reiterated its call for the government to align local fuel prices with the international oil price and also launched a 'fuel robbery calculator'. The calculator www.dieselupetrol.com - which calculates how much Maltese consumers are paying extra each time they fill their fuel tanks at petrol stations - was launched by Marthese Portelli, shadow minister for energy, who said the PN will be keeping up its pressure on the government to cut pump fuel prices immediately. "It is unaccaptable that the government is robbing people every day," she told a press conference. While in the last six months the price of oil has tumbled by 55 per cent, the price of fuel in Malta were kept at very high levels, she complained. All EU member states had slashed fuel prices drastically while in Malta the prime minister organised a press conference to lower the price by 2 cents, she said. Justice Shadow Minister Jason Azzopardi said that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat should stick to his word and be transparent. He called on the government to publish documents on fuel procurement and said the governemnt should not await the local council elections to lower the price.