- Title: Anger grows in France over fuel prices
- Date: 9th November 2018
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (NOVEMBER 9, 2018) (REUTERS) CAR DRIVER USING FUEL NOZZLE SCREEN OF FUEL MACHINE SHOWING VOLUME AND PRICE SIGN GIVING FUEL PRICES PETROL STATION FUEL NOZZLE CAR DRIVER STORING FUEL NOZZLE (SOUNDBITE) (French) CAR DRIVER, VANINA, SAYING: "Honestly, when we see that they (the government) take private jets to travel, that there are enormous liners polluting. I don't think that we, driving small cars each day, we are the first polluting actors. I think they should really set an example. I would love to see them on a Velib' (shared bicycles in Paris) as they all live in Paris, or that they take the train more often. Maybe this, would have more impact. And I don't only speak about money. I mean that we, simple citizens, we are not the ones polluting most, really." CAR DRIVER FILLING TANK (SOUNDBITE) (French) CAR DRIVER AND PHOTOGRAPHER WHO LIVES IN A PARISIAN SUBURB, PATRICE GUERITOT, SAYING: "It is outrageous, really outrageous. I don't agree with that at all. We know that it is taxed by the state, car drivers always pay and just pay. They don't ask about our opinion and then we are stuck." FUEL NOZZLES SCOOTER LEAVING FUEL STATION CARS DRIVING BY
- Embargoed: 23rd November 2018 17:47
- Keywords: Fuel prices tax Macron anger
- Location: PARIS, CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES AND ALBERT, FRANCE
- City: PARIS, CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES AND ALBERT, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Budget/Taxation/Revenue,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA00195SCEH3
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Anger is growing among French car owners over the rising cost of fuel that many say is hitting hard on their buying power.
At a Paris petrol station on Friday (November 9) all agreed to say a full tank is more expensive than it used to be.
The dispute started in recent weeks around the government's decision to gradually increase fuel taxes, a measure that will result in a raise of 6.5 cents per litre of diesel and 2.9 cents for gasoline on January 1, 2019. On social media, car drivers' anger gave birth to a movement named "yellow vest". A national mobilization is scheduled for November 17.
To avert the controversy over fuel prices, pushed up by oil prices and to a lesser extent by taxation, Emmanuel Macron has advanced several tracks this week.
At a meeting at the French finance ministry on Thursday, actors in the fuel sector have said they'll do what is necessary for consumers to benefit the current decline in world oil prices as quickly as possible.
For several weeks, the executive has insisted that the increase in the price of fuel is essentially linked to world prices.
On a week-long memorial tour of the WW1 battle grounds in Eastern and Northern France, French President Emmanuel Macron had to fend off critics by members of the public on rising prices.
The French government argues that a tax raise will help finance the country's ecological transition. But political opponents accuse Macron's government of targeting tax payers, especially those most dependant on their cars. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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