The data, June 14 -- ROME - At the self-service pump on a Sunday morning in mid-June, the number a diesel driver sees has quietly changed. For the first time since Italy's fuel market was rattled by successive shocks to global crude supply, the national average price of diesel on the road network has slipped to €1.998 per litre - fractionally, but unmistakably, below the threshold that came to symbolise the post-Hormuz cost of filling up in Europe's third-largest economy.

the steady downward drift in crude benchmarks is finally registering at the pump. Petrol in self-service mode averaged €1.891 per litre on the national road network as of June 14, 2026.

The figures carry more weight than a single decimal point suggests. Thr...