Sandrine Rousseau (EELV) wants to increase the price of a liter of gasoline by “6 ​​to 10 centimes” per year – BFMTV

During the last debate between candidates for the ecological primary this Friday on BFMTV and RMC, Sandrine Rousseau advocates an increase in the price of gasoline, “6 to 10 cents per year, and this, throughout the mandate”.

An increase in the price of a liter of fuel from “6 to 10 cents over a year”, and “this, throughout the term”, is the proposal of Sandrine Rousseau. During the last debate of the ecological primary this Friday against Yannick Jadot on BFMTV and RMC, the candidate justifies this increase in the taxation of gasoline and diesel:

“Yes it is necessary that the gasoline increases because it is what pollutes, what puts us in danger. And it is not a small danger, it is a danger on the whole humanity”.
“Yes it’s [une hausse, NDLR] between 6 and 10 centimes per liter over one year, and during the five years of the mandate “.

Up to 50 cents more per liter by 2027

Assuming an increase of 10 cents per year for five years, a liter of fuel would be sold 50 cents more expensive (at unchanged oil prices) in 2027 and this, just as a result of this tax increase. By applying it to the average price of a liter of unleaded 95-E10 in mid-September in France, i.e. 1.586 euros, the liter of SP-95 would on average greatly exceed 2 euros per liter at the end of Sandrine Rousseau’s five-year term. does not, however, detail whether this increase will be equivalent between diesel and gasoline, or through which tax mechanisms it will pass.

An increase in the price of a liter from 6 to 10 cents is on the same level as the carbon tax which raised the price of diesel at the start of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term, a tax finally abandoned following the yellow vests crisis. It also echoes that made by the environmental candidate for the chancellery in Germany, Annalena Baerbock, who proposes an increase of 16 cents per liter across the Rhine.

Support policies

The proposal comes especially at a time when prices have returned at the pump to their pre-Covid crisis level and when the French feel that this increase is weighing on their purchasing power. Sandrine Rousseau, however, offers compensation to help the most modest in this transition.

“I know that it is not easy to hear and I would like to say to the French men and women who are listening to me, and who are worried about this measure: this is precisely the reason why we are setting up an income from existence and that we also need a policy of ‘demobility’ and change of car. And for all this, I undertake to support them, “explains the candidate.