Why prepare a new “carbon tax” when the French are struggling to fill up?
TRIBUNE - While taxation already weighs heavily on gasoline prices, the new European carbon market for road fuels and heating, ETS2, planned for 2028, could further increase prices at the pump, warns the specialist in…
* Samuel Furfari is professor of energy geopolitics. He was a senior official at the Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission. Anger at the high cost of living should remind those in power of the obvious: for millions of French people, refueling is a necessary expense.
The “yellow vests” had shown it. A planned increase in fuel taxes had triggered a major social crisis. However, while Paris is today seeking to reduce prices at the pump, the European Union is preparing a mechanism intended to make them more expensive: ETS2, a new carbon market for road fuels and heating.
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