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"Mr President, we are all very well aware that rising oil prices and gas prices are having a hugely negative effect on many sectors of our economy and on consumers.
I would like to draw attention to the impact this crisis is having on the farming sector, the fishing sector and small businesses. High fuel costs have been passed on to the farmer at the present time: costs are escalating and farmers are not receiving an increase to cover that cost of high energy and gas prices.
The fuel crisis is undermining the growth of competitiveness in our small and medium-sized enterprises; reducing the consumer purchasing power aggravates the situation and, Mr President, I dread to think what is going to happen this winter – many millions of people will be unable to afford to keep themselves warm.
We all saw what happened at the petrol stations when the price of oil was going up; every day you went past a petrol station the price went up. But, now that the price has come down, they have not been bringing it down nearly as far as it went up. I think that they need to respond to that: they have made all their profits and it is time to pass on and bring in decent prices to the consumer."@en1
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