In the aftermath of the publication of a platform of the three leaders asking the French to reduce their consumption, the officials of the left opposition highlighted the hypocrisy of this request.
Le Monde
In a tribune in the Sunday Journal, the bosses of the three Totalnergies French energy, EDF and Engie called together the French to “immediately” reduce their consumption of fuel, oil, electricity and gas in the face of the risk of shortage and flambée of prices that threaten “social cohesion”, next winter. Monday, June 27, several officials of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union have insurgent about this text, notably by linking this gallery to the important profits made by Totalenergies.
This is particularly the case of the communist deputy Fabien Roussel, on the set of CNews, of which he was the guest, Monday morning. “As much as I agree that it is necessary to make a lot of investments to consume less energy, this is the meaning of the challenges that we must take up to save the climate, but, finally, on the part of these Large bosses including Total which distributed sixteen billion dividends last year and asks us to lower heating or air conditioning in the EHPAD this summer, no, but he laughs at whom he has rebellious the national secretary from the French Communist Party. He travels in private jet and pollutes more than any French by all the residences he has and asks us to make efforts, “he continued.
“Total is preparing a giant oil pipeline in Tanzania”, recalls Julien Bayou
“In the first quarter of 2022, Total made five billion euros in profits, at the same time as the French, they are pointing to the pump. It is still incredible that this one asks us To make efforts when he does not make it, “insisted the deputy for the 20
“It is inflated, for his part, reacted Julien Bayou, the national secretary of Europe Ecologie-les Verts. You know that Total is preparing a giant oil pipeline in Tanzania. Thirty-three million Tons of co 2 , Sixteen protected natural areas and it is they who call the French and the French to sobriety. I find it perfectly indecent. “
Mathilde Panot, the president of the group La France rebellious in the National Assembly, did not loosen the jaw on reading this text. “It must be said that the French are already making a lot of effort. There are twelve million French people who are in energy precariousness in our country. (…) The first effort that must be made, it must be made on multinationals, A -Is it pointed out on the set of “4 truths” on France 2. When you have Total which makes a record profit of fourteen billion euros, when the CEO [total] at last year increased by 52 % its Compensation to reach six million, when you have total that has donated shareholders eight billion, it is still tasty that it be they who ask us to make efforts. “