The devil is in the details, sometimes big details.
This Friday morning, at the start of the second debate between him and Yannick Jadot for the second round of the environmentalist primary, Sandrine Rousseau proposed to increase the price of fuel "from 6 to 10 cents per liter".
“Yes, I know it's not easy to hear,” she argued on RMC and BFM TV after a long development on the link between the less privileged of the French, the most exposed to the harmful effects of pollution.
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Sandrine Rousseau (@sandrousseau) wants to increase the price of gasoline "between 6 to 10 cents per liter over a year" pic.twitter.com/PHFOANP0sd
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"This is precisely the reason why I am setting up the basic income" to allow the poorest and those who have a vital need for their car, to continue to use them.
But, she pleaded, "gasoline must increase because it is what pollutes us, what endangers humanity".
Jadot prefers floating TIPP
Facing her, Yannick Jadot repeated himself "in favor of the floating TIPP", this system set up in France under Lionel Jospin and which consisted in reducing the share of taxes collected by the State when the price of fuel increased, in order to to smooth the cost at the pump.
This means reducing the tax collected by the State since, he also said, "fuel will naturally increase because of the cost of fetching it".
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After these crude responses, the two candidates for the ecological candidacy defended all the measures that were to accompany this policy of expensive gasoline to support the transition.
Aid for the renewal of vehicles, fleets of less polluting cars made available by local authorities in the most isolated sectors, development of public transport in the most urbanized sectors ... "Yes, gasoline is increasing, but yes I am committed to which at the end of my mandate, with the adaptation of lifestyles and behavior, it costs less than at the beginning, ”concluded the former spokesperson for EELV.
For his part, Yannick Jadot pleaded for “young people and families in difficulty to have free access to public transport” everywhere in France.
