[#SudRadio]🗣@dupontainan : “For a real reduction in the price of fuel to 1.50 euros, it is necessary to tax the profits of oil companies! »

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— Southern Radio (@SudRadio) July 4, 2022

Fuel was very expensive for a while. In recent weeks, it has become even worse: a liter has approached, and in some cases even exceeded the symbolic level of the euro. Growth due to the war in Ukraine as well penal taxation established by the government. True, the latter established a small discount, the size of which varied greatly from month to month, but it was not enough. Assistance in the amount of no more than 100 euros is provided only to the most modest employees. So much so that there are still many who haven’t even applied yet to take advantage of it. And it shouldn’t be better.

I am introducing a bill aimed at reducing gasoline taxes in the face of record high fuel prices and taxing oil company dividends.

A few days before the big holidays, this is an important topic for the French. pic.twitter.com/84UlSqaEBM

— Fabien Roussel (@Fabien_Roussel) June 29, 2022

Blame the embargo

Indeed, it is very likely that the price of fuel continues to rise over the next few weeks. For what ? Simply because of the European Union embargo on Russian oil. From this Sunday, February 5, not a single barrel from Russia has the right to enter our country kerosene, gasoline, diesel and even bitumen and fuel oil. Before the war, Europe was buying about a million a day, and in recent months this number has increased to 720,000. But, therefore, this figure must soon fall to zero, even if it should not be really immediately.

An increase should be expected

Different countries will therefore have to source elsewhere and therefore pay much more for their oil in an already highly stressed context. As explained by Michel-Edouard Leclerc, boss of the eponymous brand, which will then obviously be felt at the pump, confirming that fuel purchased by distributors was more expensive. The latter is also wary of this embargo, explaining that “now we have to buy (oil) from traders who can give us Indian diesel. We still need to check that this is not a Russian diesel via India“.

The French are punished by supply interruptions at service stations.

Thus, the government continues the discount of 30 centimes/l at gas stations until mid-November.@TotalEnergies also extends its discount of 20 centimes/l for the same period. pic.twitter.com/u7EdYWGliB

— Elizabeth BORNE (@Elisabeth_Borne) October 16, 2022