2023-09-04 06:37:29
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted yesterday at 2:24 PM, Updated just now
The tariff shield linked to electricity “will cost more than 30 billion euros in 2023”, underlined the minister. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
The Minister of the Economy reacted to a proposal made on Friday by Xavier Bertrand (LR), who demanded a rebate “for all” of 15 to 20 cents on the price of a liter of gasoline.
A rebate on the price of fuel would only benot responsible“, taking into account the cost that it would represent, and “not consistent“With the government’s budgetary commitments, said Sunday the Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire. He was reacting to a proposal made on Friday by the president of the Hauts-de-France region Xavier Bertrand (LR), who demanded a rebate “for everyone» from 15 to 20 cents on the price of a liter of gasoline, which started to rise again in the heart of summer.
This proposition “costs 12 billion euros“, affirmed Bruno Le Maire on the antenna of BFM TV, estimating that it would not be”not consistent with budgetary commitments and the release of whatever it takes». «I don’t think it’s a responsible decision, especially at a time when we continue to pay part of the French electricity bill“, he added, referring to the tariff shield still in force, from which the country must gradually exit by the end of 2024. The latter “will cost more than 30 billion euros in 2023“, underlined the minister.
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“The cost was extremely high”
In the fall of 2022, the government introduced a general rebate of 30 then 10 cents, which it ended on December 31. “When inflation was the hardest and the most penalizing for our compatriots, we made this choice», dont «the cost was extremely high“, recalled Bruno Le Maire. The government had valued the measure at 8 billion euros. “The fight against global warming and the greening of our taxation and the end of whatever’it costs mean that I am not in favor of us giving a discount on our fuels“, concluded the minister.
After falling in the spring, fuel prices started to rise again during the summer: according to the latest statement dated August 25 from the Ministry of Energy Transition, diesel prices were on average 1.8240 euros per liter , those of the super SP95-E10 at 1.9171 euro, while those of the super SP98 flirted with the symbolic threshold of two euros at 1.9844 euro. A threshold crossed in many service stations according to the comparator of the government site prix-carburants.gouv.fr, but below which remain the TotalEnergies petrol pumps, whose prices are capped at 1.99 euros until the end of the year, which weights the national average.
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