Wednesday, November 16, prices at the pump increase again. A challenge for mobility in France.
by Sophie Fay
This is the beginning of the end of the fuel rebate. Establishment in April by the State, up to 18 euro cents per liter, it rose to 30 cents at 1 er September, to which were added 20 cents of reduction in stations total. Since Wednesday, November 16, the Government will review it down, to 10 cents, followed by totalnergies, to 10 cents too, two aids that will go out at the end of the year.
“Govern is to choose and take responsibility,” assumes the Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, interviewed Tuesday, November 15 on Europe 1. Motorists won two weeks of respite due to the strike of refineries. This discount, “is a gesture that all taxpayers make,” he insists. It cost 7.6 billion euros.
While the device is coming to an end, the elected officials on the left as well as on the right: were these seven months of discounts were sufficiently used to prepare the future and propose lasting solutions and less emitting of CO 2 to 85 % of French people who need their car to go to work?
electrify the car fleet
For the moment, they have at least allowed the government to think about a better targeting of the aid, which should no longer benefit all motorists, but enjoy the “big rollers”. The contours of this support for the most modest households and professionals who drive a lot should be “specified in the coming days”, according to Mr. Beaune. To perceive this new “check”, you will have to go “on a simple website”. A budget envelope of 1.6 billion euros is planned.
The Minister also recalls that 1.3 billion euros in bonuses are scheduled in 2023 to electrify the fleet, an “incomparable effort in Europe”, it is said to the Ministry of Transport, with in particular an increase in the bonus, When purchasing a 100 % electric vehicle at 7,000 euros for the most modest households. The bike plan will also have 250 million euros in 2023, which are added to the 500 million spent between 2018 and 2022. The budget for the rail is increasing.
The Minister also asked the SNCF to set up a price shield: TGV and intercité tickets will have to increase less quickly than inflation, with special protection for the most modest and young people who use OUIGO TGV . This shield should be presented in the coming days. Finally, Mr. Beaune refines his carpool support plan, with help around 100 euros for new drivers.
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