Fuels: what if taxes were reduced when prices rise at the pump?

2023-10-09 08:07:09

This is called the diplomacy of deterrence. Visiting Lyon last Friday to inaugurate a 100% electric service station, Patrick Pouyanné, powerful boss of TotalEnergies, threatened to put an end to the cap on fuel prices in his points of sale, today at 1.99 euro, if the State decided to increase taxation on refining.