Contrary to what Emmanuel Macron tries to make believe, the unbearable price of fuels, electricity, gas and fuel oil is not the result of chance or the only vagaries of the markets.
It is the result of an unfair taxation which has misled the ecology to tax the middle and popular classes, as well as of an absurd policy which worsens the energy dependence of France.
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This situation is not inevitable.
General de Gaulle demonstrated that an energy sovereignty policy made it possible to guarantee moderate prices.
By combining hydroelectric dams with nuclear power to build its electric model, Gaullian France has benefited from cheap, reliable, low-carbon electricity without atmospheric pollution harmful to health.
We have been able to transform what initially seemed a weakness, the absence of gas and oil, into an economic and ecological asset.
Unfortunately, successive governments have sacrificed this success to satisfy the Union
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