This measure, which will cost about 2 billion euros to the state, will be “valid on all fuels”, said the Prime Minister in the newspaper “Le Parisien”.
By (with AFP)
A “15 cents pump discount per liter” will apply from April 1st and for 4 months for all French, in order to cope with the flight of fuel prices, announced Saturday Jean Castex in an interview tuned to the Parisian
This measure, which will cost about 2 billion euros to the state, concerns households such as businesses and will be “valid on all fuels”, said the Prime Minister, who calls “tankers” and “distributors” to “make a complementary gesture”. “This means that for every 60 liters, you will save 9 euros,” said the head of government.
This reduction will take place at the time of payment, check box or bank card at the pump, and will not be visible from the outset on the prices displayed at the entrance of the station, detailed the head of government .
If the state “will reimburse” then the distributors, Jean Castex called them, as well as the “petroleums”, to make themselves “a complementary gesture”. “How the French would understand that they pay a full of diesel at 2 euros, while at the same time the oil tankers always give up good profits,” he interrogated.
“If the state makes an effort of 15 cents per liter, and that they make an effort of 5 cents, it is 20 centimes that must be found in the pocket of the French”, still exhorted Prime Minister.
One more measurement of the outbreak of energy
Assuring that the professionals were well concerned by the measure, Mr. Castex addressed an additional message to the fishermen, whose “fleet of boats” is “very consumer in fuel”. “We work with the communities to measures allowing a lowering of their social and port charges,” he announced.
To try to stem the effects of the continuous rise in energy prices for months, aggravated by the invasion of Ukraine, the Government has already taken a battery of measurements: blocking the price of gas, Limitation at 4% of the rise in electricity, exceptional energy check, inflation allowance for 38 million people, or even increase in the scale of kilometers allowances. A set of decisions weighing for more than 20 billion, according to Mr Castex, who must also unveil next week “an economic and social resilience plan against the consequences of the war.
In question about a possible case in clientelism, less than a month of the first round of the presidential election, the head of the government argued that the price of fuels had become “the first concern of the French”. “Do you see me saying ‘circulate, there is nothing to see!’ Because there is an election in less than thirty days? It’s not my conception of my responsibility, “he launched.