The upward cycle for fuel is not weakening and we are moving ineluctably towards the projections of the High Commission for Planning (HCP), which had predicted that the price of a liter of fuel could go to 25 dirhams. Since this announcement, prices have been rising, creating concern among carriers, especially taxi drivers.
Continuing its cycle, the price of fuel rises and seems to no longer want to come down to the chagrin of carriers, all categories combined.
Today, the liter of diesel is displayed at 16.57 dirhams instead of 15.97 dirhams, a significant increase of 60 cents.
Fuel prices continue to soar. This Saturday, July 2, 2022, a new increase was recorded in diesel prices, around 60 cents per litre, reaching more than 16.50 DH/L. The price of gasoline remained unchanged (17.78DH/L), except for a few minor variations according to the distributors.
Despite government subsidies to a certain group of carriers, taxi drivers, meanwhile, are brooding over their anger. The latter feel “aggrieved and abandoned” by the government. And yet, they say they are a “very important layer” of the economic fabric of the Kingdom. But the government wants to “finish them off” after the Covid-19 put them on the ground.
For O. Larbi, a taxi driver in Mohammedia, the consequences of Covid-19 “are much better” than those created by the war in Ukraine. “We drive for nothing,” says the driver, father of two children.
For the races, Larbi maintains that for the kilometer traveled, he earns 1 dirham, not counting the journeys where he has to drive without a customer. The current situation is a real “impasse”, describes the taxi driver.
On the support side, the government has already positioned itself. The Minister of Economy and Finance, Nadia Fettah Alaoui recently declared that the government cannot go further. The declarations of the minister putting an end to Larbi’s optimism, the latter is now considering an alternative to make up for the losses. But given the current situation, in addition to the approach of L’Eid, he feels in a “maze” with no way out.
If the Covid-19 pandemic has been a blow to the national economy, the crisis in Ukraine has not finished revealing all the economic impacts, especially on the side of workers in the private sector.