The high price of fuel begins to seriously affect consumers, and especially professionals who use the vehicle on a daily basis. This not only resonates in the amounts of money that were previously spent on leisure, travel and free time, but also on basic expenses such as food.
More than half of those surveyed by the RACE Observatory for Drivers have had to reduce their consumption due to price increases, and 46% of those who were going to travel during Easter have decided to modify their planes.
This initiative of the Royal Automobile Club of Spain to find out the opinions of Spanish motorists on current issues that the sector has asked more than 2022 people in its April 2.000 edition about how the price increase has affected them, in general, and electricity and fuel, in particular.
The result is resounding: 27% have been affected a lot, 47% "quite a lot" and 23% little, with only 3% whose lives have not changed at all or almost nothing.
In other words, 97% of the total have seen their quality of life and purchasing power suffer. More than half (57%) have had to reduce their consumption due to price increases, especially in leisure, travel, fuel and electricity. Much concern is also the fact that 16% say they have reduced consumption of basic foods.
Before the crisis reached current levels, 46% of those surveyed said they had planes to travel at Easter. However, if half of them have reconsidered the situation to the point that, when asked now, only 31% of all those surveyed say they are going to travel this Easter. The reasons for these aircraft changes are, in this order, the general rise in prices (50%), economic uncertainty (18%), personal reasons (12%) and the rise in the price of fuel (10%). Instead, only 4% now think of Covid-19 as a reason not to travel on vacation.
