Like gas and electricity, fuel reached record prices, putting many French people in difficulty. This week, diesel has exceeded 1.55 euros per liter, while the SP 95 is approaching its 2012 record. Called to act, the government procrastinates. Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, and Barbara Pompili, his counterpart in the Ecological Transition, have been talking about a fuel check and lower taxes for several days.
“Help targeted to those in need”
Absence of a database against tax which would also benefit the well-to-do, the two solutions have limits. Gabriel Attal all the same announced this morning a device “simple, fair and effective”, which will be unveiled “by the end of the week”. But when it comes time to say more, he admitted that at the moment “all leads are on the table”. In other words, the government will decide, but has decided nothing.
“The ideal is to have direct help targeted to those who need it,” said the spokesperson for the executive. Lower taxes, checks, specific assistance for those who take the car to go to work… There is no shortage of solutions. It remains for the one chosen to have an immediate effect. In the case of the check Bruno Le Maire thus noted that he had to “arrive as quickly as possible to the French”.