As Rodrigue to choose between his love, short term, and his filial duty, in the long term, in the CID, the policies constantly replay the tragedy of the horizons. How not to sacrifice the future in the present, both indispensable and linked? The inflationary wave that overwhelms us plunges the world in this old dilemma. The French government makes it the bitter experience by being forced to help motorists face the rise in the price of gas, while the displayed priority is to reduce CO emissions 2 in Transportation.
The Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on 25 January an improvement in the tax exemption of the kilometers traveled. A measure that will affect more than 4 million homes, but causes the anger of the Socialists, who are asking for greater aids to the 17 million people, often non-taxable, who take their car every day to go to work. On its side, the Medef proposes to forget the public transport premium, included in the wages, to distribute in place fuel checks.
The logic is clear: three-quarters of the French use their car to go to work and, therefore, suffer from the spectacular increase in pump prices. And policies keep in mind that this invoice was the trigger of the rebellion of “yellow vests” in the fall of 2018. Then the end of the world will wait a little bit. The important thing, it is said, is not to lose the course, leaves to reduce its speed. We will all have electric cars, but, in the meantime, save the purchasing power.
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A dilemma that should be at the heart of the presidential campaign debates and proposals: How to manage the energy transition to avoid long-term climate disaster, while avoiding the short-term social and political disaster that would result from impoverishment General of the population? Knowing, to corser everything, the more we wait, the more the long term becomes urgent … and expensive.
Far from the tricolor gas pumps, the Chinese case is interesting to observe. At the entrance of summer 2021, exceptional droughts, as there will be more and more in the future, affect the south of the country and reduce the electrical production of dams. A considerable threat to such an industrial region. Coal capabilities are released, but emission reduction standards limit its use. The country multiplies its gas imports, eating part of the market at the expense of Europe. The flight of steel prices also comes from this diabolical mechanics.
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